Hybrid Heterostructures for Advanced Optoelectronic Devices

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-35214-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 422 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Engineering Materials and Processes

This book explores the fascinating attributes of heterostructures based on combinations of organic and inorganic materials and useful for the fabrication of modern optoelectronic devices. It reports novel developments in the exploitation of a variety of nanostructural materials including: 2D and 3D materials, conducting polymers, organic and inorganic semiconductors and carbon nanostructures such as graphene. This book explains the remarkable physico-chemical properties of these versatile materials and shows how they can be put to good use in solar cells, batteries, LEDs, quantum dots, nanowires and photodetectors.

Tremendous advances having been made in the theoretical and experimental study of various properties of these materials, Hybrid Heterostructures for Advanced Optoelectronic Devices consolidates information from current scientific research, the market in devices and patents for state-of-the-art materials to provide an in-depth study of its subject. It focuses on current problems related to selectivity and stability of hybrid heterostructures for their various applications.

Materials scientists and optoelectronic device developers will find the contributions collected in this volume to be a valuable source of up-to-date knowhow on a flexible class of materials with diverse uses.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumar, Vinod

Kumar, Arvind

Joshi, Niravkumar

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Optik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik, Medizinische Werkstoffe
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Elektronik, Optik
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Elektronische Baugruppen, Elektronische Materialien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to Hybrid Heterostructures .- Fabrication of Heterostructures by Physical Techniques.- Fabrication of Heterostructures by Advanced Chemical Synthesis.- Spectroscope Analysis of  Hybrid Interface.- Transport Properties of Advanced Heterostructures.- Atom Probe Analysis of Heterostructures.- Optical and Luminescence Behaviour of Heterostructures.- Silicon Heterostructures for Solar Cell Application.- Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Heterostructures for Perovskite Solar Cell.- Organic-Organic Heterostructures for Solar Cell.- Silicon-Organic Heterostructures for Advanced Devices Application.- Hybrid Heterostructures for Photocatalysis Applications.- Hybrid Heterostructures for Battery Application.- White-LED Based on Hybrid Heterostructures.- Hybrid Photodetector Based on Heterostructures.- 2D Hybrid Nanostructures for Enhancing Photodetection.- Hybrid Silicon Nanostructures for a Wide Range of Photodetectors.- Hybrid Core-Shell Structures for Advanced Photodetectors.- Recent Research Progress in Hybrid-Heterostructure-Based Flexible Optoelectronic Devices.- Hybrid Heterostructures for the Application of Resistive Switching Memories.- Smart Optoelectronic Sensors for Health Monitoring Based on Hybrid Materials.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Vinod Kumar is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Renewable Energy and Coordinator of the MSc Renewable Energy Technology (RENT) Programme in the Department of Physics at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. He previously held research and academic positions at DaDU (Ethiopia), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India), ICCF-UCA (France), University of Tulsa (USA), University of the Free State (South Africa), and Inter-University Accelerator Centre New Delhi (India). Dr. Vinod Kumar received his MSc and PhD degrees in Physics from Gurukula Kangri (Deemed to be University), Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. Dr. Kumar has published more than 160 research articles in reputed international journals, with over 8,300 citations and an h-index of 51. He has been granted one patent and has published four books and several book chapters. He has supervised many UG and PG students and has organized several national and international conferences. His research interests include the design and application of nanomaterials for renewable energy and environmental sustainability, especially in third-generation solar cells, photocatalysis, solar energy conversion, optoelectronic devices, solid-state lighting, and energy harvesting.  

Dr. Arvind Kumar obtained his M.Sc. degree in Physics from Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, India, followed by a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre under the aegis of the Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India. Later, he worked at the CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India where he was involved in the fabrication of nanoporous surfaces for solar energy applications, transparent electrodes, and 1D hybrid-interface-based photodetectors. Presently, he is an Assistant Professor at Chaman Lal (P.G.) College (Uttarakhand Higher Education), India, with 10 years of rich research and teaching experience. He was also selected for a scientist position at C-MET, Pune (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) India in December 2017. His current research focuses on hybrid nanomaterials, low-powered chemiresistive sensors for environmental monitoring, photodetectors, and energy devices. To his credit, he has published 30 research articles in reputed journals, served as an editor for one book, contributed two book chapters, and holds two granted patents.

Niravkumar J. Joshi is a physicist, having completed his doctorate at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. He is a visiting professor at the Federal University of ABC, Brazil. He has published more than 50 articles in specialized journals, fifteen book chapters, and two books. These papers received about 4400 citations (h = 32) on Google Scholar. He has postdoctoral experience in South Korea, Brazil, and the University of California Berkeley, USA, where he developed selective and sensitive microsensors by MEMS techniques. His present research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of oxide nanostructures and 2D material-based gas sensors. He is a core reviewer for several prestigious journals like Nano letters, ACS Applied Material Interfaces, Advanced Functional Materials, Nature Scientific Reports, Sensors and Actuators B, etc. He had worked as a Guest Editor for Special Issues in the Journal of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology and Sensor Letters.