Discovery of graphene and its astonishing properties have given birth to a new class of
materials known as “2D materials”. Motivated by the success of graphene, alternative …

A large amount of work world-wide has been directed towards obtaining an understanding
of the fundamental characteristics of porous Si. Much progress has been made following the …

Inorganic particles are effective photocatalysts for the liquid-state production of organic
precursors and monomers at ambient conditions. However, poor colloidal stability of …

Solar energy conversion plays a very important role in the transition to a more sustainable
energy system. In this sense, so many systems have been proposed to drive artificial …

Tin dioxide (SnO2) is a material of ever increasing scientific interest as a result of its many
useful and varied physical properties: it is a wide band gap (3.6 eV at 300 K), n-type …

The technological progress is closely related to the developments of various materials and
tools made of those materials. Even the different ages have been defined in relation to the …

Praise for the First Edition" The book goes beyond the usual textbook in that it provides more
specific examples of real-world defect physics... an easy reading, broad introductory …

Copper (II) oxide thin films were prepared by a sol–gel-like method on microscope glass
substrates. Precursor solutions were prepared by dissolving copper acetate in isopropyl …

The objective of this review article is to give an overview of the current state-of-the-art of
photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy as a characterization tool in the study of …

Indium phosphide (InP)-based quantum dots (QDs) are widely studied as environmentally
friendly light emitters for display applications. However, the synthesis of InP QDs with optical …