The Potential of Nitride Materials

The following chapter provides an overview of the most important application fields of nitride and oxonitride materials and outlines briefly their structural features as well as their materials properties. (Oxo)nitrides are employed in a variety of important technological areas such as structural ceramics, heat conductors, semiconductor technology, solid-state lighting, water splitting and solid-state battery materials. Their significance for daily life as well as possible advancement of (oxo)nitride materials with respect to these applications is examined.