Electronic Waste Recycling: Advances and Transformation into Functional Devices

Description

The consumption of technological products has increased in recent years owing to the modern industrial revolution, where people continue to acquire semiconductor device–based innovative hardware. However, this lifestyle may not be sustainable in the coming decades because it creates the global issue of electronic waste, caused by either mass-manufactured products or hardware that has worked in the past but is outdated now. This book presents accessible and organized literature on electronic waste recycling as an alternative route to engineering and realizing functional devices based on unusual material properties. It is a comprehensible study guide on the fundamentals of electronic waste usage and describes all aspects related to the state-of-the-art production and consumption cycles and the recycling of materials. The book explains the use of waste materials and the ways in which their unusual properties can be the basis of innovative devices for signal processing, sensing schemes, and reconfigurable operation. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Issues Related to Innovation of Technology 1.1: Patterns of Consumption 1.2: Electronic Waste Management 1.3: Environmental Concerns and Outlook 1.4: The Advent of Sustainable Cycle Chapter 2: Green Approach for Recycling 2.1: Review on Recycling Practices 2.2: Physical and Chemical Processes 2.3: Sustainable Alternatives 2.4: The Opportunity for Recycling Chapter 3: Challenge on Recovery of Metallic Materials 3.1: Toxic Metals from E-Waste 3.2: Precious Metals from E-Waste 3.3: Green Metals from E-Waste 3.4: Relationship with Recovery Chapter 4: Recycling Facilities for Printed Circuit Boards 4.1: Photovoltaic Modules 4.1.1: Sustainable Rescue of PV Modules 4.2: LED Lamps 4.2.1: Sustainable Rescue of LED Lamps 4.3: Cell Phones 4.3.1: Sustainable Rescue of Cell Phones 4.4: The Action of Innovation Chapter 5: Graphite as Emerging Critical Mineral 5.1: Graphite-Based Devices 5.2: Conduction Properties in Graphite Layers 5.3: Application Example: Signal Processing 5.3.1: Addition 5.3.2: Multiplication 5.3.3: Modulation Chapter 6: Semiconductor Behavior in Mn-Zn Ferrites 6.1: Ferrites as E-Waste Component 6.2: Physical Properties of Ferrites in Foil Shape 6.3: Application Example: Sensing Circuits 6.3.1: Detection of the Temperature 6.3.2: Assessment of the Phase Difference Chapter 7: Reconfigurable Behavior in Silicon Semiconductors 7.1: Silicon Semiconductors as E-Waste 7.2: Transient Action of an Inductor 7.3: Nonlinear Conduction in the p-n Junction 7.4: Application Example: Electronic Architecture Chapter 8: Iron-Silicon Foil as Sustainable Material 8.1: Recycled Electronic Waste: Iron-Silicon Foil 8.2: Structure Properties in Iron Oxide Thin Films 8.3: Application Example: Adaptive Structures 8.3.1: Active Substrate 8.3.2: Dynamic Conduction Layer Index