Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Applications in Sensor, Optoelectronic and Photovoltaic Technology

Cover -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface -- Invited Papers: -- Nanostructured materials based next generation devices and sensors -- Metal-induced crystallization -- an advanced technology for producing polycrystalline Si films on foreign substrates -- Electronic characterisation and modelling of disordered semiconductors -- Spectroscopy of rare earth ions -- Nanostructured and advanced materials for bio-applications -- Transmission electron microscopy imaging of nanoparticulate matter -- Matrix embedded metal and semiconductor nanoparticles -- From nanoparticles to nanorods and nanowires -- ZnO -- an advanced material for solar cell, optoelectronic and sensor applications -- Ion beam nanostructuring of materials -- Porous silicon for sensor applications -- Luminescent nanoparticles: Colloid synthesis and emission properties -- Nanoparticles: Functionalization and elaboration of materials -- Organized mesoporous thin films -- Photovoltaics in the world -- Nano-structured materials for a hydrogen economy -- Nano-structured functional materials: The defect chemistry -- Nano-structured materials for the conversion of sustainable energy -- Seminar Papers: -- Double-walled carbon nanotubes: Synthesis and filling by 1-D nanocrystals -- Kinetics of field-aided nickel induced lateral crystallisation of hydrogenated amorphous silicon -- Silicon thin-film solar cells -- Nanocavity structures produced by ion implantation into silicon for semiconductor applications -- Nanocrystal superlattices of copper, silver and gold, by nanomachining -- Raman scattering from low-dimensional semiconductors -- Selected Contributed Papers: -- Stress state and twin configuration of spheroidal silver nanoparticles in glass -- Synthesis, characterization, photocatalytic and dielectric properties of nanosized strontium and barium titanates -- Properties of -FeSi2 quantum structures grown on silicon -- Zinc oxide nanowires on non-epitaxial substrates from colloidal processing for gas sensing applications -- Structural properties of poly-Si thin films obtained by aluminium-induced crystallization in different atmospheres -- Challenges of growing CuAlSe2 by physical vapor deposition -- Silicon-on-insulator thin films grown by liquid phase epitaxy -- Recrystallization of CdTe under conditions of high temperature and pressure -- Prospective investigations of biofuel cells as sources for applications in nanobiotechnology -- Electronic properties of a peanut-shaped C60 polymer -- The gel trapping technique: A novel method for characterizing the wettability of microparticles and the replication of particle monolayers -- Ideal nano-emitters and panel nano-devices based on 2D crystals of superconducting nanotubes -- Photoluminescence and XPS study of selenium treated porous silicon -- Synthesis and characterization of PbS nanocrystal assemblies -- Laser assisted fragmentation of silver and copper nanoclusters in SiO2 thin films -- Nd3+ photoluminescence in silica thin films -- Characterization of the metal-semiconductor interface for silicon carb.