Piezotronics and Piezo-Phototronics Hardback
by Zhong Lin Wang
Part of the Microtechnology and MEMS series
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The fundamental principle of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics were introduced by Wang in 2007 and 2010, respectively.
Due to the polarization of ions in a crystal that has non-central symmetry in materials, such as the wurtzite structured ZnO, GaN and InN, a piezoelectric potential (piezopotential) is created in the crystal by applying a stress.
Owing to the simultaneous possession of piezoelectricity and semiconductor properties, the piezopotential created in the crystal has a strong effect on the carrier transport at the interface/junction.
Piezotronics is for devices fabricated using the piezopotential as a "gate" voltage to control charge carrier transport at a contact or junction.
The piezo-phototronic effect uses the piezopotential to control the carrier generation, transport, separation and/or recombination for improving the performance of optoelectronic devices, such as photon detector, solar cell and LED.
The functionality offered by piezotroics and piezo-phototronics are complimentary to CMOS technology.
There is an effective integration of piezotronic and piezo-phototronic devices with silicon based CMOS technology.
Unique applications can be found in areas such as human-computer interfacing, sensing and actuating in nanorobotics, smart and personalized electronic signatures, smart MEMS/NEMS, nanorobotics and energy sciences.
This book introduces the fundamentals of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics and advanced applications.
It gives guidance to researchers, engineers and graduate students.
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- Pages:248 pages, 135 Illustrations, color; 10 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 248 p. 145 illus., 135 i
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Publication Date:11/01/2013
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- ISBN:9783642342363
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages, 135 Illustrations, color; 10 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 248 p. 145 illus., 135 i
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Publication Date:11/01/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9783642342363
