Low Dimensional Ti-Oxide based Structures: Thin Film Surfaces of SrTiO3 and TiO2 - Softcover

Radović, Milan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 384734739X ISBN 13: 9783847347392

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Transition metal oxides (TMO) form altogether a very wide class of materials, which has attracted since decades the attention for showing highly diversified and unusual electronic properties. The building blocks of TMO are typically octahedral structures (BO6) where a transition metal atom (B) is embedded in a cage composed of six oxygen atoms. Strontium titanate (SrTiO3) belongs to the class of particularly important TMO materials with the general formula ABO3. SrTiO3 is a widely used substrate material for electronic oxide thin film devices. Technological applications of SrTiO3 require the optimization of the processes that can reproducibly produce a given surface. Titanium dioxide, another representative of TMO materials, occurs in several forms such as rutile, anatase and brookite. Anatase is less stable than rutile but more efficient for several applications. Anatase is commercially available as powder but a thin solid film form is more suitable for photocatalyses. Therefore, the improvement of the anatase thin film production technique is of great importance.

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About the Author

Milan Radović, scientific collaborator at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland obtained his PhD at UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II, Naples Italy. His research interests are inventions, developments and studies of complex materials and their heterostructures with special accent on surface and interface properties.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 384734739X
• ISBN 13: 9783847347392
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168