Electronic Waste Recycling: Advances and Transformation into Functional Devices

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issue of electronic waste, caused by either  mass-manufactured products or hardware that has worked in the past but  is outdated now.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.