Description
Functional Materials Processing for Switchable Device Modulation focuses on the advances of nanofabrication that underpin emerging technologies, including electronic devices. The book provides readers with a broad view of the materials’ perspectives, including historical context and background, along with future opportunities for smart electronic and switchable devices. A major focus in the book is on the research and development of synthetic materials for spectroscopic analysis which broadly deals with science and technology of materials on the atomic and molecular scale. The book reviews the materials and advances in research for switchable electronics for bioelectronic, sensing and optoelectronic applications.
In addition, key challenges and emerging opportunities in innovations in surface modification and novel functional materials device implementation for industrial scale reproducibility are discussed. The book covers the applications and market potential for a variety of media, including mirrors, glazing/coatings, and display products. The physics, electrochemistry, device design and materials are detailed, with performance compared between the most relevant and emerging switchable technologies.
- Addresses the most interesting advances in switchable devices for bioelectronics, electronics, optoelectronics and sensing applications
- Includes a special emphasis on materials design, processing and fabrication of switchable devices to realize large-scale industry applications
- Compares the performance of existing innovative switchable devices
- Reviews the remaining barriers to commercialization, along with opportunities to address these challenges
Table of Contents
1. State and art for the fabrication of novel functional materials: Switchable device modulation techniques
2. Ultra-thin graphene synthesis: Fundamental applications in transparent electrodes and supercapacitor
3. Recent progress on ‘Graphene’ as photo-sensitive switchable device
4. Superior fast switching on Graphene self-assembly with liquid crystalline optical materials
5. Textural phase transition of liquid crystalline hybrid composite bi-stable electro-optic switching
6. Controllable photo-induced switching-organic electronic devices
7. Intrinsic photovoltaic effect- organometallic perovskite switchable devices
8. Emergence of organic-inorganic solar cell for architecture: Switchable glazing
9. Challenges and opportunities of materials commercialization: Photonic, electronic, switchable sensor analysis
10. Resistive switching on bio-inspired natural solid polymer electrolytes
11. A new frontier in switchable bio-electronics and bio-nanotechnology interfaces
12. Optically tunable switching of DNA based biopolymer
13. Conclusion, outlook, future aspects and utilization of functional materials novel switching
