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Back Cover: Focus on Sustainable Electronics (Phys. Status Solidi RRL 9/2011)
Author(s) -
Klar Peter J.,
Meyer Bruno K.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
physica status solidi (rrl) – rapid research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.786
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1862-6270
pISSN - 1862-6254
DOI - 10.1002/pssr.201190022
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , scarcity , focus (optics) , electronics , per capita , business , environmental economics , engineering , economics , sociology , electrical engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , population , demography , optics , microeconomics
Today’s society uses up to 35 tons of material per capita and year for basic needs, luxury or consumer goods, hightech products, etc. The functioning of highly specialised electronic devices depends on the systematic incorporation of different chemical elements into the materials comprising the device. However, the abundance of the individual chemical elements varies by orders of magnitude and, furthermore, they are not evenly distributed on the Earth's surface. Do we have enough resources for our current and future needs? Which are possible strategies to cope with the problem of scarcity and related issues? These questions are addressed in the “Focus on Sustainable Electronics” ( pp. 307–339 in this issue), guest‐edited by Peter J. Klar and Bruno K. Meyer.