This book provides chronological advancement of metal oxide high-K dielectrics up to contemporary scenarios, synthesis with suitability and challenges, and diverse properties with emerging technological applications. It helps readers select metal oxide-based high-K dielectrics with large band-gap, cost-effective, and highly efficient material properties for plausible applications. It provides up-to-date research findings on established synthesis techniques, easy processing, characterization, properties, and prospective practical applicability, including hybrid materials.
Features:
- Exhaustively covers synthesis, physical properties, and the applications of the high-K dielectrics
- Focuses on synthetic routes of preparation, properties, and their various practical applications from bench to field
- Discusses functionalization of novel metal oxides and flexible polymeric composite materials for superior dielectric and electrical performance
- Explores facile synthesis techniques for high-K dielectrics and their hybrid composites, properties, and technological applications
- Includes future perspectives and possible challenges for applying high–K dielectric materials
This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in materials science and engineering, physics, and electrical engineering.
Srikanta Moharana is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in Chemistry from the School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, India. He received his M.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. Dr Srikanta Moharana has published more than 60 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals, 40 book chapters, and many more counting with renowned international publications. Moreover, he has actively participated in and presented his research work at several international conferences and has been a reviewer for reputed international journals. He has been awarded Prof. GB Behera's Best Ph.D. thesis award under the banner of Orissa Chemical Society, Odisha, India. He has more than 5 years of teaching and research experience. He works as a Guest Editor and has strong experience in the field of perovskite metal oxide and nanocomposite synthesis based on polymer and fabrication of flexible thin film capacitors for advanced energy storage. He is a life member of the Orissa Chemical Society.
Santosh Kumar Satpathy currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, School of Applied Sciences, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India. He has completed his M.Sc. (Physics) from Sambalpur University and his Ph.D. from Sambalpur University in collaboration with Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata. He has received his M.Phil. in Physics from the School of Physics, Sambalpur University, India. During his PhD, he worked on the double perovskite materials. He has more than 34 research papers in different international and national journals. He has published more than seven book chapters with various international and national publishers. He is currently working as a Guest Editor and Six M.Phil. students have been awarded and three (3) students are continuing Ph.D. under his guidance. He has more than 5 years of teaching and 5 years of research experience. His current area of research is Ferroelectrics, Advanced Ceramic Materials, Multiferroics, Polymers, ceramic composites, and other ceramic materials for the application of perovskite materials. He has gained recent expertise in the field of nano structured perovskite systems and has moved on to high-energy storage devices. He is a life member of Orissa Physical Society.
Tuan Anh Nguyen is principal research scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam. His research focuses on advanced nanomaterials, and nanotechnology for corrosion and materials integrity in transportation systems. His research activities include smart coatings, conducting polymers, corrosion and protection of metals/concrete, antibacterial materials, and advanced nanomaterials. He has edited 9 CRC Press books.
Ram Gupta is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University. Dr. Gupta has been recently named by Stanford University as being among the top 2% of research scientists worldwide. Before joining Pittsburg State University, he worked as an Assistant Research Professor at Missouri State University, Springfield, MO then as a Senior Research Scientist at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC. Dr. Gupta’s research spans a range of subjects critical to current and future societal needs including: semiconducting materials & devices, biopolymers, flame-retardant polymers, green energy production & storage using nanostructured materials & conducting polymers, electrocatalysts, optoelectronics & photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, biocompatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold & antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants. Dr. Gupta has published over 270 peer-reviewed journal articles, made over 350 national/international/regional presentations, chaired/organized many sessions at national/international meetings, wrote several book chapters (90+), worked as Editor for many books (30+) and received several million dollars for research and educational activities from external agencies. He is also serving as Editor, Associate Editor, Guest editor, and editorial board member for various journals.
Parvej Ahmad Alvi has received his Ph. D. in Applied Physics (2009), from the Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh – 202002 (India). His major area of research is MEMS/NEMS Technology (Nanotechnology). He is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India. He has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience in the area of modern physics, semiconductor physics, and nanotechnology, etc. He has worked as an editorial board member and reviewer in several international/national journals and conferences. He has published more than 100 research papers in refereed international journals and conferences. He has also published more than 6 national/international text and reference books in the area of physics. He has guided around 20 Ph.D. scholars.
