Oxide-Based Materials and Structures: Fundamentals and Applications [Hardcover]

Oxide-based materials and structures are becoming increasingly important in a wide range of practical fields including microelectronics, photonics, spintronics, power harvesting, and energy storage in addition to having environmental applications. This book provides readers with a review of the latest research and an overview of cutting-edge patents received in the field.

It covers a wide range of materials, techniques, and approaches that will be of interest to both established and early-career scientists in nanoscience and nanotechnology, surface and material science, and bioscience and bioengineering in addition to graduate students in these areas.

• Contains the latest research and developments in this exciting and emerging field
• Explores both the fundamentals and applications of the research
• Covers a wide range of materials, techniques, and approaches

1. Oxide-based Materials and Structures: General Remarks. 2. Optical Characterization of Oxide-based Materials Using Ellipsometry . 3. Electrical Characterization of Oxide-based Materials using Impedance Spectroscopy. 4. Analytical Techniques for Characterization of Oxide-based Materials. 5. Low Dimensional Structures of SnO2, TiO2 and In2O3 with Applications of Technological Interest. 6. Transition Metal Oxides for Magnetic and Energy Applications. 7. Phonon and Plasmon-phonon Interactions in ZnO Single Crystals and Thin Films. 8. Zinc Oxide Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition  AVersatile Material for Microelectronics. 9. Wide and Ultrawide Bandgap Oxides for Photovoltaics and Photonics

This book provides a review of the latest research and cutting-edge patents received in the field of oxide-based materials and structures.