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Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Modules: Manufacturing and Performance
Metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and modules offer promise as an ultralow-cost, high-performing renewable energy source due to their high-power conversion efficiency (PCE), low materials cost, divers...
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Integration of Electrical Energy Storage Devices with Photovoltaic Solar Cells in One Hybrid System
In this chapter, we classify previous efforts when combining photovoltaic solar cells (PVSC) and energy storage components in one device. PVSC is a type of power system that uses photovoltaic technology to con...
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Advances in Colloidal Synthesis of “Giant” Core/Thick-Shell Quantum Dots
Core/shell quantum dots (QDs) have been widely studied for their size- and composition-dependent properties and versatility for use in photonic, photovoltaic, optoelectronic, and biomedical device applications...
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Nanoparticles-Induced Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals for Tunable Electro-Optical Devices
Nematic Liquid Crystals (NLCs), long-range orientationally ordered fluids, have always been the best choice for the development of various display and non-display devices due to their simplest phase structure,...
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Scanning Photodielectric Spectroscopy of CdZnTe Crystals
An original method of scanning photodielectric spectroscopy (SPDS), which belongs to photoelectric methods for studying localized states of charge carriers in wide-gap semiconductors, is presented. A distincti...
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Interparticle Charge Transport Enhances Electrochemiluminescence of Quantum Dots
Quantum dots (QD) have been gaining popularity within the field of biomedical diagnostics research because of their unique electrochemiluminescence (ECL) properties. During the past two decades, great efforts ...
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Defect-Influenced Modeling of Photophysics in Lead-Based Hybrid and All-Inorganic Perovskites
This chapter presents an investigation into the optoelectronic characteristics of pure and mixed-halide perovskites. The study delves into the absorption, carrier recombination, and emission quantum yields of ...
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Development of Thallium-Based Semiconductors and Scintillators for High Energy Radiation Detection
A variety of medical imaging, homeland security, industrial monitoring, environmental survey, and physical science applications can be largely enhanced by employing high-performance room-temperature semiconduc...
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Halide Perovskite Thin Films for Neutron and X-Ray Detection
The need for high-efficiency wide-area coverage radiation detectors is essential in applications related to nuclear medicine, industrial imagining, environmental monitoring, spacecraft applications, and homela...
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Naturally Inspired Heme-Like Chemistries for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Going Beyond Platinum Group Metals in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Catalysis
In the context of the ongoing energy transition, electrochemical devices such as electrolysers and fuel cells (FC) will play a critical role in the implementation of a “Hydrogen Economy”. The ambition is to de...
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Supersonic Cluster Beam Deposition for the Integration of Functional Nanostructured Films in Devices
During the last two decades, supersonic cluster beam deposition (SCBD) has consolidated its role as vacuum-based physical method for the production of nanostructured films of metal oxides, noble metals, graphi...
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Design and Optimization of CdTe QDs Luminescent Solar Concentrators Based on Analytic and Simulation Models
Given their attractive optical features, nanostructured direct bandgap semiconductors such as cadmium telluride (CdTe) quantum dots (QDs) have become great candidates to be employed as luminophores for lumines...
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Emerging Trends in Nanotechnology for Forensic Science
Nanotechnology applied for forensic purposes is a field of Materials Science that is rapidly growing due to its numerous possibilities of application, such as latent fingerprint developers and sensors for illi...
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Photoelectrochemical Immunosensor for Carcinoembryonic Antigen Detection: An Attempt for Early Cancer Screening
Metal organic framework (MOF) is a porous material assembled by organic ligands or metals. Due to its large volume, specific surface area, high porosity, and adjustability, MOF is widely used in catalysis, pol...
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Photoinduced Electron Transfer Dynamics in Hybrid Quantum Dot/Molecular Catalyst Systems for Artificial Photosynthesis
Quantum dots (QD) have been gaining popularity within the highly multidisciplinary field of artificial photosynthesis research because of their unique photophysical properties. The fundamental processes that n...
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Optical Structural and Phonon Characteristics of Epitaxially Grown II–VI/III–V Films and Superlattices
This chapter focuses on providing a systematic analysis of the far-infrared (FIR) reflectivity/transmission, Raman scattering, spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE), and high-resolution synchrotron extended x-ray ab...
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Defect Engineering in Epitaxially Grown Cd(Zn)Te Thin Films on Lattice-Mismatch Substrates
II–VI (Hg)(Cd)(Zn)Te semiconductors are significant materials with a wide range of applications in high-end infrared (IR) sensing/imaging, radiation detectors, and solar cells. However, due to the soft and bri...
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Charge Carrier Dynamics of Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Application Toward X-Ray/Gamma-Ray Radiation Detection
Recently, metal halide perovskites (MHPs) with the general chemical formula ABX3 (where A=Cs+, methylammonium (MA+), formamidinium (FA+); B=Pb2+; X=I−, Br−, Cl−) have emerged as a new class of materials for appli...
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Printable Organic and Hybrid Semiconductors: A New Frontier for Detecting Ionizing Radiation
Development of novel materials and devices capable of ionizing radiation detection is a rapidly emerging area in both fundamental research and technology translation. Organic semiconductors and metal halide pe...
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Coarse Integral Hologram Displays
In the last Chapter, we introduced a general configuration for a holographic display system. In holographic display systems, the key technology is how to implement a hologram display with high space-bandwidth-...
