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Transport Phenomena in Micro- and Nanoscale Functional Materials and Devices

  • 1st Edition - March 23, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Joao B. Sousa, João Oliveira Ventura, Andre Pereira
  • Language: English

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Description

Transport Phenomena in Micro- and Nanoscale Functional Materials and Devices offers a pragmatic view on transport phenomena for micro- and nanoscale materials and devices, both as a research tool and as a means to implant new functions in materials. Chapters emphasize transport properties (TP) as a research tool at the micro/nano level and give an experimental view on underlying techniques. The relevance of TP is highlighted through the interplay between a micro/nanocarrier’s characteristics and media characteristics: long/short-range order and disorder excitations, couplings, and in energy conversions. Later sections contain case studies on the role of transport properties in functional nanomaterials.

This includes transport in thin films and nanostructures, from nanogranular films, to graphene and 2D semiconductors and spintronics, and from read heads, MRAMs and sensors, to nano-oscillators and energy conversion, from figures of merit, micro-coolers and micro-heaters, to spincaloritronics.

Key features

  • Presents a pragmatic description of electrical transport phenomena in micro- and nanoscale materials and devices from an experimental viewpoint
  • Provides an in-depth overview of the experimental techniques available to measure transport phenomena in micro- and nanoscale materials
  • Features case studies to illustrate how each technique works
  • Highlights emerging areas of interest in micro- and nanomaterial transport phenomena, including spintronics

Readership

Academics focusing on the areas of materials characterization, materials chemistry, molecular engineering, 2D nanomaterials and spintronics. The book will also appeal to engineers working in device modelling seeking to understand how micro/nanomanipulation can increase the efficiency of electronic transport

Table of contents

1. General formulation of transport phenomena2. Transport phenomena and their relationsa. Thermo-magneto-galvanic effectsb. Quasi particles transport3. Experimental techniques to measure transport properties in solidsa. Electrical resistivity, thermopower, thermal conductivity, Nernst, Ettinsghausen and Peltier effectsb. Transport coefficient derivatives: dc and ac methodsc. Magnetoresistance, Hall effectd. Indirect and non-contact measurements4. Transient and dynamics of transport phenomenaa. Transport under pulsed magnetic fieldsb. Large scale facilitiesc. Microscale setups5. Microscopic information provided by transport measurements; case studiesa. Phase transitions and critical behaviorb. Order-disorder in materialsc. Spin reorientation transitionsd. Relaxation phenomenae. Electrodeposition viewed within the scope of transport phenomenaf. Colossal magnetocaloric effectg. Transport phenomena in superconductors and applications; high TC superconductorsh. Magneto-Seebeck Effect6. Transport phenomena in thin films and nanostructuresa. Experimental techniquesb. Transport in thin filmsc. Transport in nanowires and nanotubesd. Ballistic transport e. Nanogranular media f. Transport in Graphene and 2D semiconductorsg. Topological insulators7. Spintronics a. Read headsb. MRAMsc. Sensors d. Electrical noise in magnetic nanostructurese. Nano-oscillators (magnetic nanopillars, spin torque, coupling effects)f. Hysteretic transport phenomena g. Spin Orbitronicsh. Spintronics in Graphene8. Role of transport coefficients in energy conversion devicesa. Figures of merit, micro-coolers and micro-heatersb. Thermoelectricsc. Thermo-magneto-electric effectsd. Spincaloritronics

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 23, 2021
  • Language: English

About the authors

JS

Joao B. Sousa

João Bessa Sousa is Emeritus Professor at Department of Physics & Astronomy of Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto. His teaching and research activities span solid sate & low temperature physics, micro & nanotechnologies, transport phenomena. Degree in Electrotechnical Engineering at Univ. Porto (1957-63) and Ph.D. at Univ. Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory (1965-68; Superconductivity). More than 260 published scientific articles. Awarded with the Order Santiago Espada, one of Portugal highest civil honours; also the Prize for Scientific Excellence by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2005). Effective Member of Portuguese Academy of Sciences. Co-founder and later President of Portuguese Physical Society. Former member of NATO Research Grants Scientific Committee, of Physical Society (London), of Condensed Matter Division of European Physical Society; of Linacre & Wolfson Colleges, Oxford. Co-founder and first President of Institute of Physics of Materials of University of Porto (IFIMUP).
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Porto, Portugal

JV

João Oliveira Ventura

João Oliveira Ventura is a Principal Researcher at the Institute of Physics for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics (IFIMUP), a leading research unit of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Portugal, where he works in nanoelectronics and energy harvesting materials since 2008. His research interests include spintronics and spin-dependent transport, the fundamental properties of nanostructured materials, magnetic nanostructures, nanogenerators, thin film deposition and lithography. He is the author of more than 160 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and one granted patent. He is currently the vice-president of IFIMUP and the vice-director of the Micro- and Nano-Fabrication Unit of the University of Porto (CEMUP-MNTEC).
Affiliations and expertise
Institute of Physics for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics (IFIMUP), University of Porto, Portugal

AP

Andre Pereira

André Pereira is an Auxiliar Professor at Department of Physics & Astronomy of Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto. He did a PhD at University of Porto (2010) then latter was pos-doc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2010-2012) and research associate at Imperial College of London at UK (2013). Actually, his teaching and research are mainly focus in the topics related with nanotechnologies, magnetism and plastic electronics, for applied areas such as energy harvesting, storage and innovative sensors. He has published more than 120 scientific articles in specialized magazines, several chapters on that related topics of research. He is currently president of the Physics Society of the northern division.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Porto, Portugal

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