Advances in Fabrication and Investigation of Nanomaterials for Industrial Applications

This book provides readers with a collection of selected articles contributed by leading experts around the world, covering recent advances in fabrication and investigation of nanoengineered materials, thin films and colloids in application to key emerging industrial sectors. The readers are exposed to a variety of concepts ranging from fundamental to applied, addressing different application sectors including sensing, imaging, energy generation, energy storage and forensics. In addition to key enabling concepts and technologies of interest to broad range of nanomaterials, the contributions emphasize semiconductor nanostructures and devices, reflecting their continuing interest to academia and industry.

• Covers topics including synthesis, applications of nanomaterials, nanostructured thin films and nanoengineered colloids;
• Written by practicing experts around the world, with topics of emerging industrial interest;
• Emphasizes semiconductor nanostructures and devices in application to energy, environment, health and security sectors.

Sivashankar Krishnamoorthy has over 18 years of experience in development of advanced nanotechnologies in the directions of micro/nanofabrication, surface engineering and functional integration within optical, electronic and lab on chip devices applied to lighting, memory, environmental and healthcare applications. He has served in research and technology intensive environment within CSEM SA (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Fujirebio, inc (Tokyo, Japan), A*STAR IMRE (Singapore) prior to joining LIST (Luxembourg). He has held or currently holds a range of professional roles including coordination of interdisciplinary research projects and teams, supervision of masters, PhD, and post-doctoral research, as founding member of institutional ethics committee, peer-review of international grant applications, management committee of EU cost actions, member of organizational and technical committee of international conferences, and editor of books, and international journals.

Krzysztof (Kris) Iniewski is managing R&D development activities at Redlen Technologies Inc., a detector company based in British Columbia, Canada. During his 15 years at Redlen he has managed development of highly integrated CZT detector products in medical imaging and security applications. Prior to Redlen Kris hold various management and academic positions at PMC-Sierra, University of Alberta, SFU, UBC and University of Toronto.

Dr. Iniewski has published over 150+ research papers in international journals and conferences. He holds 20+ international patents granted in USA, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. He wrote and edited several books for Wiley, Cambridge University Press, Mc-Graw Hill, CRC Press and Springer. He is a frequent invited speaker and has consulted for multiple organizations internationally.