Semiconductor Materials for Sensing Volume 828 from the Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Series (2004 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA)
Editors: Sudipta Seal, Marie-Isabelle Baraton, Clyde Parrish, and Norimitsu Murayama
Publisher: Materials Research Society
ISBN: 1-55899-776-8
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This collection of 53 papers from the 2004 Materials Research Society's Fall 2004 meeting deals with both the development of new or improved semiconductor materials and the physical/chemical/biological phenomena involved in the sensing mechanism. The book organizes the papers by broad category: advanced materials and processing; nanotubes and nanowires; solid-state ionics-based sensors; modeling, mechanism, and structure-properties relationships; biochemical sensors; integration; and physical sensors as well as a section of poster-session papers.
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Because of the nature of the material, this book is aimed at researchers or others who need this kind of in-depth academic material. In other words, it's not for the faint of heart. However, it's interesting to see how the use of nanoscale materials offers new or improved sensing ability.
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