Hybrid Heterostructures for Advanced Optoelectronic Devices

This book explores the fascinating attributes of heterostructures based on combinations of organic and inorganic materials and useful for the fabrication of modern optoelectronic devices. It reports novel developments in the exploitation of a variety of nanostructural materials including: 2D and 3D materials, conducting polymers, organic and inorganic semiconductors and carbon nanostructures such as graphene. This book explains the remarkable physico-chemical properties of these versatile materials and shows how they can be put to good use in solar cells, batteries, LEDs, quantum dots, nanowires and photodetectors. Tremendous advances having been made in the theoretical and experimental study of various properties of these materials, Hybrid Heterostructures for Advanced Optoelectronic Devices consolidates information from current scientific research, the market in devices and patents for state-of-the-art materials to provide an in-depth study of its subject. It focuses on current problems related to selectivity and stability of hybrid heterostructures for their various applications. Materials scientists and optoelectronic device developers will find the contributions collected in this volume to be a valuable source of up-to-date knowhow on a flexible class of materials with diverse uses.