Group III Nitride Semiconductor Compounds: Physics and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780198501596 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 492 str.

Bernard Gil

Opis

Nitride semiconductors have tremendous potential, particularly in visible and ultraviolent optoelectronics. This book describes the physics of nitride-based materials and related devices. Its goal is to provide graduate students and young researchers with a rapid introduction to this burgeoning field. It contains tutorial-style chapters commissioned from some of the very best experts from academia and industry. The book addresses all aspects arising from the dual challenges of achieving high-quality, single crystal material and engineering optoelectronic devices. In the first chapters, the reader will learn about the nitrides in the context of other semiconductors and will be exposed to the methods used to grow these materials. The following chapters then discuss the materials' performance from the point of view of electronic transport, optical, and structural properties. The volume concludes with an extensive review of device applications in modern transistors, ultraviolet detectors, and light emitters.

Recenzje

...the book succeeds well in its aim of providing an informed survey of the rapidly developing topic of the nitride semiconductors, at an expository level suited both to those entering the field from other semiconductor areas and to those already in the field.

O autorze

Bernard Gil, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Groupe d'Etude des Semiconducteurs, Universite de Montpellier II, Case courrier 074, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France, Tel:+33 67 14 39 24, Fax:+33 67 14 37 60, email: gil@ges.univ-montp2.fr (address details of contributors attached)