The excitement brought by the science and technology of III-V compound semiconductors is well described in several books1{4 and review articles5{8, published. As shown in Fig 1.1, the nitride semiconductors AlN, GaN and ...

In recent times, Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have fascinated chemists for their versatile applications as well as rational crystal structure design. Porous coordination polymers (PCPs) or MOFs are porous and polymeric ...

The field of molecular spectroscopy has developed very rapidly in the last century. This has led to better understanding of molecular structure and studying interactions at molecular levels. All this has been possible ...

Space ? the final frontier , the preface to a well-known television series not only captures the challenges encountered in space travel adventures, but also in the field of porous materials, whose mandates are to control ...

Group III-nitrides are the most promising wide bandgap semiconducting materials for high efficiency optoelectronic device applications1,2 that operate very well without aging effects, even with very high dislocation ...

Historically, light scattering by small particles and related discussions can be traced back to the era of Leonardo da Vinci. He correctly predicted that the blue color of the sky was due to light scattered o macroparticles ...

Interparticle dipolar coupling leads to a shift in plasmon absorption maxima as particles are brought from infinite distance to the proximity of each other. The distance between the particles can thus be related to the ...

When light interacts with a medium, it is either transmitted or absorbed following the laws of reflection and refraction, but a tiny fraction is scattered by inhomogeneties in the medium. These inhomogeneties can be ...

Transition metal oxides exhibit a wide range of behavior ranging from metallic conductivity, insulating, superconducting, ferroelectricity, colossal magnetoresistance, etc. They have applications ranging from catalysis, ...

The prefix nano came from the Greek word ???o? or the Latin word nannus, both meaning dwarf. At the 11th Conference Gnrale des Poids et Measures (CGPM) in 1960 it was adopted as an official SI prefix, meaning 10-9 of an ...