This book provides readers with a collection of selected articles contributed by leading experts around the world, covering recent advances in fabrication and investigation of nanoengineered materials, thin films and colloids in application to key emerging industrial sectors. The readers are exposed to a variety of concepts ranging from fundamental to applied, addressing different application sectors including sensing, imaging, energy generation, energy storage and forensics. In addition to key enabling concepts and technologies of interest to broad range of nanomaterials, the contributions emphasize semiconductor nanostructures and devices, reflecting their continuing interest to academia and industry.
Chapter 1 Supersonic Cluster Beam Deposition for the integration of
functional nanostructured films in devices.
Chapter 2 Advances in colloidal
synthesis of giant core/thick-shell quantum dots.
Chapter 3 Emerging
trends in nanotechnology for Forensic Science.
Chapter 4 Nanoparticles
induced alignment of nematic liquid crystals for tunable electro-optical
devices.
Chapter 5 Photoelectrochemical immunosensor for carcinoembryonic
antigen detection- an attempt for early cancer screening.
Chapter 6 Scanning
Photodielectric Spectroscopy Of CdZnTe Crystals.
Chapter 7 Exploring the
Potential of Transition Metal Complexes with MPA-CdTe Quantum Dots for
Photoinduced Electron Transfer.
Chapter 8 Interparticle
Charge-Transport-Enhanced Electrochemiluminescence of Quantum-Dot Aerogels.-
Chapter 9 Optical structural and phonon characteristics of epitaxially grown
II-VI/III-V films and superlattices.
Chapter 10 Defects engineering in
epitaxiallygrown Cd(Zn)Te thin films on lattice-mismatch substrates.
Chapter
11 Defect-influenced modeling of photophysics in lead-based hybrid and
all-inorganic perovskites.
Chapter 12 Charge carrier dynamics of halide
perovskite nanocrystals: application towards X-ray/gamma-ray radiation
detection.
Chapter 13 Thallium Based Materials for Radiation Detection.-
Chapter 14 Printable Organic and Hybrid Semiconductors: A New Frontier for
Detecting Ionizing Radiation.
Chapter 15 Halide Perovskite Thin Films for
Neutron and X-ray Detection.
Chapter 16 Metal Halide Perovskite Solar
Modules Manufacturing and Performance.
Chapter 17 Naturally Inspired
Heme-like Chemistries for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction - Going Beyond
Platinum Group Metals in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Catalysis.-
Chapter 18 Integration of electrical energy storage devices with photovoltaic
solar cells in one hybrid system.
Chapter 19 Design and optimization of CdTe
QDs luminescent solar concentrators based on analytic and simulation models.
Sivashankar Krishnamoorthy has over 18 years of experience in development of advanced nanotechnologies in the directions of micro/nanofabrication, surface engineering and functional integration within optical, electronic and lab on chip devices applied to lighting, memory, environmental and healthcare applications. He has served in research and technology intensive environment within CSEM SA (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Fujirebio, inc (Tokyo, Japan), A*STAR IMRE (Singapore) prior to joining LIST (Luxembourg). He has held or currently holds a range of professional roles including coordination of interdisciplinary research projects and teams, supervision of masters, PhD, and post-doctoral research, as founding member of institutional ethics committee, peer-review of international grant applications, management committee of EU cost actions, member of organizational and technical committee of international conferences, and editor of books, and international journals.
Krzysztof (Kris) Iniewski is managing R&D development activities at Redlen Technologies Inc., a detector company based in British Columbia, Canada. During his 15 years at Redlen he has managed development of highly integrated CZT detector products in medical imaging and security applications. Prior to Redlen Kris hold various management and academic positions at PMC-Sierra, University of Alberta, SFU, UBC and University of Toronto.
Dr. Iniewski has published over 150+ research papers in international journals and conferences. He holds 20+ international patents granted in USA, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. He wrote and edited several books for Wiley, Cambridge University Press, Mc-Graw Hill, CRC Press and Springer. He is a frequent invited speaker and has consulted for multiple organizations internationally.
