ABSTRACT
The developments in inorganic and organic nanoparticle synthesis provide an abundance of building blocks that offers the construction of solid state composites and hybrid systems with unlimited possibilities. The development of the microelectronics and photonics was stimulated by the elaboration of the solid state composites in which the mixing of the constituents occurs both at the microscopic and nanometre levels. This chapter gathers together different physical methods used for fabrication of solid state composites and hybrid systems. One of these methods is physical vapour deposition (PVD) that merges a variety of vacuum deposition approaches. The most common chemical techniques for the processing of ceramic and metal matrix nanocomposites include colloidal and sol-gel processes. The composites and hybrid systems offer various applications. The photochemical method of synthesis has proven more effective than the production of nanocomposite by traditional synthetic approaches, and in a number of cases only they make it possible to achieve the assigned aim.
