Radiation Effects In Advanced Semiconductor Materials And Devices

Organic Photovoltaics Organic Photovoltaics also analyzes in detail the charge-transfer processes in the bulk-heterojunction devices corresponding to the relevant mechanism of carrier generation. The present volume describes and explains the fundamentals of organic/plastic solar cells in a manner accessible to both researchers and students.Achieving efficient solar energy conversion at both large scale and low cost is among the most important technological challenges for the near future.

Raman scattering is now being applied with increasing success to a wide range of practical problems at the cutting edge of materials science.

Most practical knowledge of the glass transition needed for glass or plastic technologies and applications is now readily available. Inthe last few years, glass transition research has enormously intensified.

Physical phenomena ranging from optics to shock waves are discussed, as are applications in such diverse fields as semiconductor annealing, hole drilling and fusion plasma production. Laser-Beam Interactions with Materials.The approach taken emphasizes the fundamental ideas and their interrelations. Laser-Beam Interactions with Materials treats, from a physicist's point of view, the wide variety of processes that lasers can induce in materials.

It reviews virtually all anelastic relaxation phenomena ever published, and also most of the internal friction effects based on other types of dissipation of mechanical (elastic) energy.Furthermore, the reader is also supplied with explanations of the basic physical mechanisms of internal friction, a summary of typical effects for different groups of metals, and more than 2000 references to original papers.

Now many people understand that ordering represents a general regular phenomenon in all non stoichiometric compounds.

.

Nanocrystals and Their Mesoscopic Organization is an up-to-date monograph on an important aspect of nanoscience and technology. It opens with an elegant introduction including a brief historical account.

Space applications are an obvious case, but, beyond that, today's device and circuit fabrication rely on increasing numbers of processing steps that involve an aggressive environment where inadvertant radiation damage can occur.. This book is both aimed at post-graduate researchers seeking an overview of the field, and will also be immensely useful for nuclear and space engineers and even process engineers. Finally the book outlines the shortcomings of present experimental and modeling techniques and gives an outlook on future developments.

Tables providing information at a glance and schematic diagrams at relevant places, make the monograph appealing to read. It opens with an elegant introduction including a brief historical account. In summary, the monograph serves as a general introduction as well as a handy reference for the entire community of researchers and practitioners.