Bonnell D.A., Kalinin S.V. Scanning Probe Microscopy for Energy Research

World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., UK, USA, 2013. – 619 p. – ISBN: 9814434701Efficiency and life time of solar cells, energy and power density of the batteries, and costs of the fuel cells alike cannot be improved unless the complex electronic, optoelectronic, and ionic mechanisms underpinning operation of these materials and devices are understood on the nanometer level of individual defects. Only by probing these phenomena locally can we hope to link materials structure and functionality, thus opening pathway for predictive modeling and synthesis. While structures of these materials are now accessible on length scales from macroscopic to atomic, their functionality has remained Terra Incognitae. In this volume, we provide a summary of recent advances in scanning probe microscopy studies of local functionality of energy materials and devices ranging from photovoltaics to batteries, fuel cells, and energy harvesting systems. Recently emergent SPM modes and combined SPM-electron microscopy approaches are also discussed. Contributions by internationally renowned leaders in the field describe the frontiers in this important field.
Readership: Students, professionals and researchers in materials science, nanomaterials and new materials.Local Probes in the Next Decade of Energy Research: Bridging Macroscopic and Atomic Worlds
Scanning Probes for Energy Harvesting Systems: Photovoltaics and Solar Cells
Electrical Scanning Probe Microscopy on Solar Cell Materials
Organic Solar Cell Materials and Devices Characterized by Conductive and Photoconductive Atomic Force Microscopy
Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy for Solar Cell Applications
Reversible Rectification in Sub-Monolayer Molecular P-N Junctions: Towards Nanoscale Photovoltaic Studies
Study of Photoinduced Charges with Atomic Force Microscopy
Imaging of Nanoscale Photogenerated Charge Transport in Organic Photovoltaic Materials
Photoassisted Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy for Characterization of Solar Cell Materials
Scanning Probes for Fuel Cells and Local Electrochemistry
Electrochemical Strain Microscopy of Oxygen-Ion Conductors: Fuel Cells and Oxide Electronics
Ion Dynamics in Nanoscopic Subvolumes of Solid Electrolytes Analysed by Electrostatic Force Spectroscopy
Nanoscale Electrochemistry in Energy Related Systems using Atomic Force Microscopy
Scanning Probe Microscopy of Fuel Cell Materials Under Realistic Operating Conditions
Scanning Probe Microscopy of Energy Storage Materials and Devices
In situ SPM Analysis of Interfacial Phenomena in Lithium-Ion Batteries
Conducting-Probe Atomic Force Microscopy of Electrochemical Interfaces
Electrochemical Strain Microscopy of Li-ion and Li-air Battery Materials
Emerging Scanning Probe Techniques
High Sensitivity Scanning Impedance Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Scanning Microwave Microscopy: Advances in Quantitative Capacitance and Carrier Density Measurements at the Nanometer Scale
Mapping Electrochemistry at the Micro and Nanoscales with Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy
Force Microscopy, Nanochemistry and Nanofabrication
Studying the Mechanism of Piezoelectric Nanogenerators