Functional Oxides

Functional oxides have a wide variety of applications in the electronic industry. The discovery of new metal oxides with interesting and useful properties continues to drive much research in chemistry, physics, and materials science.
In Functional Oxides five topical areas have been selected to illustrate the importance of metal oxides in modern materials chemistry:

Noncentrosymmetric Inorganic Oxide Materials
Geometrically Frustrated Magnetic Materials
Lithium Ion Conduction in Oxides
Thermoelectric Oxides
Transition Metal Oxides - Magnetoresistance and Half-Metallicity
The contents highlight structural chemistry, magnetic and electronic properties, ionic conduction and other emerging areas of importance, such as thermoelectricity and spintronics.

Functional Oxides covers these complex concepts in a clear and accessible manner providing an excellent introduction to this broad subject area.


Additional volumes in the Inorganic Materials Series:

Low-Dimensional Solids | Molecular Materials | Porous Materials | Energy Materials


Inorganic Materials Preface
Preface

List of Contributors



1. Noncentrosymmetric Inorganic Oxide Materials: Synthetic Strategies and Characterization Techniques

P. Shiv Halasyamani

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Properties Associated with Noncentrosymmetric Materials

1.3 Outlook – Multifunctional Materials

1.4 Concluding Thoughts

Acknowledgements

References


2. Geometrically Frustrated Magnetic Materials

John E. Greedan


2.1 Geometric Frustration

2.2 Real Materials

References


3. Lithium Ion Conduction in Oxides

E. J. Cussen


3.1 Introduction

3.2 Sodium and Lithium β-alumina

3.3 Akali Metal Sulfates and the Effect of Anion Disorder on Conductivity

3.4 LISICON and Related Phases

3.5 Lithium conduction in NaSICON-related phases

3.6 Doped Analogues of LiZr2(PO4)3

3.7 Lithium conduction in the Perovskite Structure

3.8 Lithium Containing Garnets

References


4. Thermoelectric Oxides

Sylvie Hébert and Antoine Maignan


4.1. Introduction

4.2. How to optimize Thermoelectric Generators (TEG)

4.3. Thermoelectric oxides

4.4. Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References


5. Transition Metal Oxides - Magnetoresistance and Half-Metallicity

Tapas Kumar Mandal and Martha Greenblatt

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Magnetoresistance: Concepts and Developments

5.3 Half-Metallicity

5.4 Oxides Exhibiting Half-Metallicity

5.5 Magnetoresistance and Half-Metallicity of Double Perovskites

5.6 Spintronics – The Emerging Magneto-electronics

5.7 Summary

Acknowledgments

References