Chemical Solution Synthesis for Materials Design and Thin Film Device Applications

Chemical Solution Synthesis for Materials Design and Thin Film Device Applications

Table of Contents:
1. Nucleation and particle growth in solution-processed thin films Santanu Bera and Soumen Das 2. Notes on useful materials and synthesis through various chemical solution techniques Kalyan Mandal, Srabantika Ghose, Madhuri Mandal, Deblina Majumder, Souvanik Talukdar, Indranil Chakraborty, and Subhendu K. Panda 3. Deposition of thin films by chemical solution-assisted techniques Ankit Kashyap, Niraj Kumar Singh, Mahesh Soni, and Ajay Soni 4. Functional materials for various organic electronic devices Ritesh Kant Gupta, Rahul Narasimhan Arunagirinathan, Mohammad Adil Afroz, Rabindranath Garai, Anwesha Choudhury, Maimur Hossain, Ramesh Babu Yathirajula, and Parameswar Krishnan Iyer 5. Nanocrystalline semiconductors for thin-film devices by microreactor-assisted chemical solution deposition Zhongwei Gao, Yu-Hsuan Yang, Ming-Huei Shen, Ho-Chun Huang, Yu-Wei Su, Changqing Pan, and Chih-hung Chang 6. Chemical methods to produce mesoporous thin films with tunable properties G.J.A.A. Soler-Illia, P. Vensaus, and D. Onna 7. A short review on inorganic thin films from device perspective Dipak Kumar Baisnab, Supratim Mukherjee, and Soumen Das 8. Lithography and electrodes Sagnik Middya, Gabriele S. Kaminski Schierle, George G. Malliaras, and Vincenzo F. Curto 9. Buckling-assisted thin-film deposition and lithographic strategies for flexible device patterning Debashis Maji and Soumen Das 10. Recent progress in the development of printed electronic devices Mohit Pandey, Mohammed Rashiku, and Shantanu Bhattacharya 11. Thin-film devices for chemical, biological, and diagnostic applications Nehal Zehra, Laxmi Raman Adil, Arvin Sain Tanwar, Subrata Mondal, and Parameswar Krishnan Iyer 12. Ink-jet-printed semiconductor electrochromic nanoparticles: Development and applications in electrochromism Tiago Moreira, Marta Maia, Anto´nio Jorge Parola, Mattia Zangoli, Francesca Di Maria, and C,esar A.T. Laia 13. Sol-gel materials for smart electrochromic devices M. Fernandes and V. de Zea Bermudez 14. Perovskite solar cells: New precursors and challenges for scaling-up Manuel Vásquez-Montoya, Juan F. Montoya, Rafael Betancur, Daniel Ramirez, and Franklin Jaramillo 15. Recent improvements in dye-sensitized solar cells Alfred Błaszczyk 16. Infiltration technique to fabricate nanostructured electrodes for high-performance solid oxide fuel cells Shobit Omar 17.  Nanomaterials in thin-film form for new-generation energy storage device applications Samik Saha and Sachindranath Das 18. New strategies toward high-performance and low-temperature processing of solution-based metal oxide TFTs Emanuel Carlos, Rita Branquinho, Pedro Barquinha, Rodrigo Martins, and Elvira Fortunato 19. Solution-processed light-emitting devices Nila Pal and Bhola N. Pal 20. Solution-processed photodetectors Nitesh K. Chourasia and Bhola N. Pal 21. Chemical routes to magnetic nonvolatile memory devices Andrea Ehrmann and Tomasz Blachowicz 22. Resistive memory device with piezoelectric and ferroelectric thin films by solution synthesis Dhiraj Kumar Rana and Soumen Basu 23. Investigation of the properties of oxide-based multilayer thin films and their use in the photocatalytic applications Maryam Baradaran and Farhad E. Ghodsi

About the Author :
Dr. Soumen Das is a Scientific Officer at the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Tamil Nadu, India. He works on semiconductors, ferroelectric and magnetic oxide thin films and nanostructured materials. He has published peer-reviewed research articles and book chapters on semiconductor and ceramic materials. As one of the team members in the organization, Dr. Das looks after fuel rod processing, fuel pin characterization and qualification. He is also actively involved in material research and development, studying growth mechanisms and properties. Prof. Dr. Sandip Dhara has completed his Masters in Physics from IIT, Kharagpur in 1989. He finished his Ph.D. from National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi in 1994 and joined IGCAR in 1996. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry. Presently he is the Head of the Surface and Nanoscience Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam and Professor of Homi Bhabha National Institute. He was also a visiting Professor in University of Valencia, Spain; Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany; and Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dr. Dhara has published more than 300 research publications s. He is the recipient of DAE-SRC outstanding researcher award for 2012. He is also on the editorial broad of number of national and international scientific journals. Dr. Dhara is specialized in studies of light-matter interaction. At present, he is involved in several national and international collaborative programme.