This volume presents advanced synthesis techniques for fabricating Perovskite materials with enhanced properties for applications such as energy storage devices, photovoltaics, electrocatalysis, electronic devices, photocatalysts, sensing, and biomedical instruments. The book attempts to fill a gap in the published literature and provide a detailed reference on Perovskite materials. This book will be of use to graduate students and academic and industrial researchers in the fields of solid-state chemistry, physics, materials science, and chemical engineering.
About the Author: Narayanasamy Sabari Arul received his Ph.D. in Nanoscience and Technology from Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu, India. His research position includes visiting PhD research fellow at Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Taiwan and Brain-Korea (BK21) Postdoctoral Fellow at Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea and Assistant Professor in Dongguk University-Seoul, South Korea. His research interests include synthesis of metal oxide nanocomposites and thin films, nanomaterials, quantum dots, two-dimensional dichalcogenides and perovskites for photocatalysts, photovoltaic cells, memory devices, supercapacitors, and electrochemical sensors. He has published more than 45 SCI journal articles in the field of Materials science multidisciplinary and Nanotechnology along with 20 papers in proceedings of international conferences and holds one US and Korean Patent. Dr. Arul also serves as a referee for various journals in Springer, Elsevier, Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Physics.
V.D. Nithya received her Ph.D. in Physics from Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu, India. She was awarded University gold medal in Bharathiar University for her excellence in M.Sc Physics motivated her to receive INSPIRE junior research fellowship (2010-2012) and INSPIRE senior research fellowship (2012-2014) from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India. Her research interests mainly focus on metal oxide nanostructures and their applications for energy storage devices with special emphasis on supercapacitors and Li-ion batteries. In her academic carrier, she has published more than 20 peer-reviewed international research articles and also participated and published few national/international conferences proceedings in the field of Materials science, Physics/Chemistry Multidisciplinary.
