Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Applications in Sensor, Optoelectronic and Photovoltaic Technology

Invited Papers.- Nanostructured Materials Based Next Generation Devices and Sensors.- Metal-Induced Crystallization — An Advanced Technology for Producing Polycrystalline Si Films on Foreign Substrates.- Electronic Characterisation and Modelling of Disordered Semiconductors.- Spectroscopy of Rare Earth Ions.- Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Bio-Applications.- Transmission Electron Microscopy Imaging of Nanoparticulate Matter.- Matrix Embedded Metal and Semiconductor Nanoparticles.- From Nanoparticles to Nanorods and Nanowires.- ZnO — An Advanced Material for Solar Cell, Optoelectronic and Sensor Applications.- Ion Beam Nanostructuring of Materials.- Porous Silicon for Sensor Applications.- Luminescent Nanoparticles: Colloidal Synthesis and Emission Properties.- Nanoparticles: Functionalization and Elaboration of Materials.- Organized Mesoporous Thin Films.- Photovoltaics in the World.- Nano-Structured Materials for a Hydrogen Economy.- Nano-Structured Functional Materials: the Defect Chemistry.- Nano-Structured Materials for the Conversion of Sustainable Energy.- Seminar Papers.- Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis and Filling by 1-D Nanocrystals.- Kinetics of Field-Aided Nickel Induced Lateral Crystallisation of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon.- Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells.- Nanocavity Structures Produced by Ion Implantation Into Silicon for Semiconductor Applications.- Nanocrystal Superlattices of Copper, Silver and Gold, by Nanomachining.- Raman Scattering from Low-Dimensional Semiconductors.- Selected Contributed Papers.- Stress State and Twin Configuration of Spheroidal Silver Nanoparticles in Glass.- Synthesis, Characterization, Photocatalytic and Dielectric Properties of Nanosized Strontium and Barium Titanates.- Properties of ?-FeSi2Quantum Structures Grown on Silicon.- Zinc Oxide Nanowires on Non-Epitaxial Substrates from Colloidal Processing, for Gas Sensing Applications.- Structural Properties of Poly-Si Thin Films Obtained by Aluminum-Induced Crystallization in Different Atmospheres.- Challenges of Growing CuAlSe2 by Physical Vapor Deposition.- Silicon-On-Insulator Thin Films Grown by Liquid Phase Epitaxy.- Recrystallization of CdTe Under Conditions of High Temperature and Pressure.- Prospective Investigations of Biofuel Cells as Sources for Applications in Nanobiotechnology.- Electronic Properties of A Peanut-Shaped C60 Polymer.- The Gel Trapping Technique: A Novel Method for Characterizing the Wettability of Microparticles and the Replication of Particle Monolayers.- Ideal Nano-Emitters and Panel Nano-Devices Based on 2D Crystals of Superconducting Nanotubes.- Photoluminescence and XPS Study of Selenium Treated Porous Silicon.- Synthesis and Characterization of PbS Nanocrystal Assemblies.- Laser Assisted Fragmentation of Silver and Copper Nanoclusters in SiO2 Thin Films.- Nd3+ Photoluminescence in Silica Thin Films.- Characterization of the Metal-Semiconductor Interface for Silicon Carbide Based Sensors.- Nanoparticles, Nanoporous and Carbon Nanotube Based Devices for Bio-Molecular Detection.- Crystallisation of Apatite Stoichiometric Ionomer Glasses for Medical Applications and Optoelectronics.- Growth and Characterization of Nanocrystalline Diamond and Carbon Nanotubes by Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition.