Emerging Materials

This book serves as a quick guide on the latest material systems including their synthesis, fabrication and characterization techniques. It discusses recent developments in different material systems and discusses their novel applications in various branches of science and engineering. The book briefs latest computational tools and techniques that are used to discover new material systems. The book also briefs applications of new emerging materials in various fields including, healthcare, sensors, opto-electronics, high power devices and nano-electronics. This book helps to create a synergy between computational and experimental research methods to better understand a particular material system.

Autorentext

Dr. Laxman Raju Thoutam received his Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA. He is currently Assistant Professor at SR University, Warangal, India. His research interests are in the areas of nanoscience, materials science and device physics.

Dr. Shubham Tayal receive his Ph.D. from NIT Kurukshetra, India. He is currently Assistant Professor at SR University, Warangal, India. His research interests are in the areas of VLSI design and microelectronics

Dr. J. Ajayan received his Ph.D. in electronics and communication engineering from Karunya University, Coimbatore, India, in 2017. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at SR University, Warangal, India. His research interests are in the areas of CMOS VLSI design, solid-state devices, microelectronics and nanotechnology

Inhalt

Chapter 1:Novel emerging materials: Introduction, Evaluation and Impact

· History of Material Research

· Discovery of Emerging Materials

· Technological Roadblocks in Emerging Materials

· Impact of Emerging Materials in Science and Engineering

· Future Scope of Emerging Materials

Chapter 2: Latest experimental techniques for fabrication and characterization of materials

Synthesis & Fabrication Techniques

· Atomic Layer Deposition

· Hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy

· E beam Lithography · Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography

· Nano-Imprint Lithography

Characterization Techniques

· Scanning Electron Microscope

· Transmission Electron Microscope

· Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis

· Angle Resolved Photo Emission Spectroscopy · Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy

Chapter 3:Design techniques for new materials using computer intelligence · Introduction

· Material Design: Past, Present and Future

· Conventional Approaches for Material Design

· Statistics and Data Mining Concept

· Neural Networks and Genetic Programming

· Evolutionary Algorithms for Material Design

· Material Designing using ANN Models · Conclusion

Chapter 4: Computational tools to explore and create database of new material systems · Machine learning in solid-state materials science

· Computational tools for data integration

· Computational Tools for Materials Design

· Computational tools to predict material properties

· The application of computational tools in new materials discovery

Chapter 5: Challenges and opportunities for emerging material systems

· Challenges and opportunities on synthesis of emerging materials

· Challenges in fabrication and integration for emerging material systems

· Challenges in characterization of emerging materials

· Challenges and Opportunities for 2D Materials & their Heterostructure based

Devices

· Challenges and opportunities for materials science in quantum information

Processing

II. Applications of Emerging Materials

Chapter 6:Manufacturing Sector

· Introduction

· Why New Materials?

· Present and Future Needs for Materials in:

· Electronic Industry

· Lighting Industry · Container Industry

· Automobile Industry

· Building Industry

· Conclusion

Chapter 7: Healthcare and Biotechnology

· Introduction

· Materials in Semiconductor Device processing

· Semiconductor Devices in Healthcare

· Semiconductor Devices in Biotechnology · Role of Materials in Performance Analysis of Bio-Sensors

· Conclusion

Chapter 8: Aerospace

· Introduction to emerging aerospace materials

· Aluminum and Composites: Structures, Synthesis and Characteristics

· Advanced composite materials: Structures, Synthesis and Characteristics

· Superalloys: Synthesis and Characteristics

· Ceramic Composites

· Carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) and honeycomb materials

· Metal Matrix Composites

· Polymer Aerogels

· CNT-yarns · Emerging radiation resistant materials for space environment applications

Chapter 9:Agriculture · Modern Agriculture Methods and Practices

· Innovations in Feedstock

· Nanopesticides

· High Yield Crop Sensors

· New Age Photocatalysts

Chapter 10:High power devices

· Emerging Wide band-gap semiconductor materials for power devices

· Emerging Dielectrics for power electronics capacitors

· Emerging magnetic materials for power inductors and transformers

· SiC-Emerging Power Device Technology

· SiC metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs)

· AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs)

· Ga2O3: An emerging material for high-power switching electronic devices

Chapter 11:Nano and Opto-electronics

· Graphene Electronics

· 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide based FET's

· Emerging Memory Technologies · Nanomaterials in Energy Storage

· Metamaterials

· Next Generation Optoelectronics