Recently, the English academic monograph Silicon Carbide Nanostructures: Fabrication, Structure, and Properties, Second Edition, co-authored by Professor Jiyang Fan of Southeast University and Professor Paul K. Chu of City University of Hong Kong, has been officially published by Springer, the leading international academic publisher headquartered in Germany.
This work stands as the first academic monograph worldwide to systematically review nanoscale silicon carbide semiconductors. According to the official statistics from the publisher, the first edition of the book has delivered an outstanding performance since its release, ranking among the top 20 percent most cited books in Springer’s entire collection. In response to an invitation from the publisher’s executive editor, the authors have extensively expanded and deeply updated the volume on the basis of the first edition, expanding its length from 330 to 529 pages, to deliver a more comprehensive monograph that better reflects various cutting-edge advances in this booming field.
Professor Jiyang Fan’s research group has carried out sustained investigations in silicon carbide semiconductor quantum dots, uncovering a host of intriguing properties including quantum confinement effects and surface-state luminescence. Fan took charge of drafting the full manuscript, and collaborated with his co-author to review and proofread the entire text.
Silicon carbide nanostructures have become a major research focus across global physics, materials science and engineering communities, thanks to their remarkable fundamental scientific significance and strong industrial application potential. The book reveals in depth the intrinsic relationship between structures and properties of nanoscale silicon carbide, highlighting the unique characteristics of this large family of crystals: it features over two-hundred polytypes capable of phase transformations, possesses extremely complex surface structures with diverse reconstructions, exhibits surface localized-state luminescence that covers nearly the entire visible spectrum, and demonstrates excellent environmental friendliness and biocompatibility. These attributes open up broad applications in the areas such as quantum information, nanoelectronics, photonics, electron field emission, pressure and temperature sensing, and biomedicine.
From a distinctive perspective of combining experiments and computational simulations, the book offers a comprehensive examination of a wide range of low-dimensional silicon carbide nanostructures, from zero-dimensional quantum dots, one-dimensional nanowires and nanotubes, to two-dimensional honeycomb-structured monolayers. It also systematically summarizes key progress over recent decades in the microstructural, electronic, phonon and optical properties of bulk silicon carbide crystals. This second edition places enhanced emphasis on frontier scientific topics of point defects and spin dynamics, doping and competing luminescence mechanisms, as well as the origin of silicon carbide microcrystals in the universe.
Link:https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-10986-6
