Functional Metal Oxides - New Science And Novel Applications

This forward-looking title focuses on the key innovations for industrial growth areas for functional metal oxides: energy technology, semiconductors, electronics, and automotive.

Bridging the gap between basic science and technological applications, the book covers the full range of topics in the field of advanced metal oxide science and technology such as metallic, semiconducting, insulating, ferromagnetic, superconducting, ferroelectric, and multiferroic metal oxide systems and their engineered interface systems. It emphasizes many of the modern applications of metal oxides in solar cells, batteries, catalysis and for resistive switches. Chapters about the growth and processing of oxidic thin films and nanomaterials round the topic out.

Professor Satischandra Ogale is a senior scientist at the National Chemistry Laboratory in Pune (India) and a Professor of Physical Sciences at the ACSIR in New Delhi. After obtaining his academic degrees from the University of Poona, he spent 9 years as senior researcher at the University of Maryland (USA). Dr. Ogale has authored more than 330 research publications and one book.

Professor Venky Venkatesan directs the NanoCore Research Center at the National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD from the University of New York and Bell Laboratories (USA) and an MSc and a BSc degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur (India). Prior to taking up his current appointment, he has been a Physicist and manager with Bell Labs and Bellcore and with the Center for Superconductivity Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. He also founded the Surface Center at Rutgers University where he was a Professor from 1985 to 1990.

Professor Mark Blamire heads the Device Materials group at the University of Cambridge (UK). His research is based on the study of novel materials or new materials combinations for potential device applications. These materials include metals, oxides, nitrides with properties which include superconductivity, magnetism and ferroelectricity.