Chemical Solution Synthesis for Materials Design and Thin Film Device Applications

Soumen Das, Sandip Dhara

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780128197189
• eBook ISBN:
  9780128231708
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Physical & Theoretical Chemistry
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Chemical Solution Synthesis for Materials Design and Thin Film Device Applications presents current research on wet chemical techniques for thin-film based devices. Sections cover the quality of thin films, types of common films used in devices, various thermodynamic properties, thin film patterning, device configuration and applications. As a whole, these topics create a roadmap for developing new materials and incorporating the results in device fabrication. This book is suitable for graduate, undergraduate, doctoral students, and researchers looking for quick guidance on material synthesis and device fabrication through wet chemical routes. - Provides the different wet chemical routes for materials synthesis, along with the most relevant thin film structured materials for device applications - Discusses patterning and solution processing of inorganic thin films, along with solvent-based processing techniques - Includes an overview of key processes and methods in thin film synthesis, processing and device fabrication, such as nucleation, lithography and solution processing

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Nucleation and particle growth in solution-processed thin films
• Chapter 2 Notes on useful materials and synthesis through various chemical solution techniques
• Chapter 3 Deposition of thin films by chemical solution-assisted techniques
• Chapter 4 Functional materials for various organic electronic devices
• Chapter 5 Nanocrystalline semiconductors for thin-film devices by microreactor-assisted chemical solution deposition
• Chapter 6 Chemical methods to produce mesoporous thin films with tunable properties
• Chapter 7 A short review on inorganic thin films from device perspective
• Chapter 8 Lithography and electrodes
• Chapter 9 Buckling-assisted thin-film deposition and lithographic strategies for flexible device patterning
• Chapter 10 Recent progress in the development of printed electronic devices
• Chapter 11 Thin-film devices for chemical, biological, and diagnostic applications
• Chapter 12 Ink-jet-printed semiconductor electrochromic nanoparticles: Development and applications in electrochromism
• Chapter 13 Sol-gel materials for smart electrochromic devices
• Chapter 14 Perovskite solar cells: New precursors and challenges for scaling-up
• Chapter 15 Recent improvements in dye-sensitized solar cells
• Chapter 16 Infiltration technique to fabricate nanostructured electrodes for high-performance solid oxide fuel cells
• Chapter 17 Nanomaterials in thin-film form for new-generation energy storage device applications
• Chapter 18 New strategies toward high-performance and low-temperature processing of solution-based metal oxide TFTs
• Chapter 19 Solution-processed light-emitting devices
• Chapter 20 Solution-processed photodetectors
• Chapter 21 Chemical routes to magnetic nonvolatile memory devices
• Chapter 22 Resistive memory device with piezoelectric and ferroelectric thin films by solution synthesis
• Chapter 23 Investigation of the properties of oxide-based multilayer thin films and their use in the photocatalytic applications
• Index