Meet the editors

Phuong Viet Pham is Distinguished Research Fellow at College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering and Zhejiang University-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joint Institute (ZJU-UIUC), Zhejiang University, China. He earned a PhD from SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea (2016). After obtaining his degree, Dr. Pham spent a few years

as a postdoctoral researcher and research fellow at the School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, SKKU, and the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea, respectively. He is the recipient of the NSF Career Award of China for Excellent Young Scientist (2019). His research interest focuses on low-dimensional materials, 2D material synthesis, new doping technique development, nanocomposites, block copolymers, plasma engineering for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), transistors, sensors, photodetectors, flexible displays, and wearable electronics.

Dr. Pratibha Goel received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) in 2016. Since then, she has been a postdoctoral fellow at Peking University (China), CSIR-NPL (India), and Imperial College London (UK). Currently, she is working as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Her research interests include nanostructured surfaces for tunable wetting properties and Surface-enhanced

Raman Spectroscopy (SERS). Currently, she is working on nanopipette-based, single-molecule-based biosensors.

Dr. Kumar is an experimental physicist with expertise in the development and study of sculptured thin films and interfaces. Dr. Kumar received his PhD in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, in 2017. He has been working at Kyoto University since February 2018. His primary area of research is the synthesis of novel nanostructures by glancing angle deposition for plasmonics, surface-enhanced spectroscopy, photocatal-

ysis, water repellent surfaces, and bio/chemical sensing applications.

Dr Kavita Yadav obtained her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) in 2016 and received the SJSS Sodha research award for best PhD publication. She has also worked as Senior Project Scientist at Nanoscale Research Facility, IIT Delhi. She won the DST INSPIRE faculty award from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and joined the Department of Physics at the Central University of

Haryana as DST Inspire Faculty in November 2017. Currently, she is working in the Department of Higher Education Haryana as Assistant Professor in Physics. Her research interests include formation of solid surfaces with tunable wetting properties, oil-water filters, CO2 hydrogenation, and gas sensing.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Hong Liu*

Growth Kinetics of Thin Film Epitaxy

*and Venkatesan Dhananjeyan*

*by Orkut Sancakoglu*

*by Phuong V. Pham*

*and Asghari Maqsood*

**Section 2**

Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Properties and Applications

*by Aravind Kumar Jagadeesan, Krithiga Thangavelu* 

The New Etching Technologies of Graphene Surfaces

Mechanical, and Energy Applications

*by Azusa N. Hattori and Ken Hattori*

**Preface XI**

Synthesis and Properties of Thin Film **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 27**

**Chapter 3 49**

Etching and Lithography of Thin Film **61**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 73**

**Chapter 6 91**

Technological Background and Properties of Thin Film Semiconductors

Surface Science of Graphene-Based Monoliths and Their Electrical,

*by Mujtaba Ikram, Sana Arbab, Bilal Tariq, Rayha Khan, Husnain Ahmad, Abdullah Khan Durran, Muhammad Ikram, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal* 

Creation and Evaluation of Atomically Ordered Side- and Facet-Surface

Structures of Three-Dimensional Silicon Nano-Architectures
