Symposium C, "Thin-Film Compound Semiconductor Photovoltaics" and Symposium FF, "Compound Semiconductors for Generating, Emitting, and Manipulating Energy--II" were held on April 1-5 at the 2013 MRS Spring Meeting in the San Francisco, California. This combined symposia Proceedings represents the latest technical advancements and information on compound semiconductors for generating, emitting, and manipulating energy from universities, national laboratories and industries. It provides insight into emerging trends in these exciting technologies.

This third book in a series on nonvolatile memories builds on fundamental materials properties, materials integration, demonstration, and industrial devices gathered in those previous. A strong and increasing interest in nonvolatile memories, both domestic and international, indicates the worldwide importance of these materials and memory devices. The book features research on advanced flash memories, including nanoparticle floating gate FETs, MRAM, FeRAM, ReRAM and phase change RAMs, as well as memories using polymer materials. Papers from a joint session with Symposium FF, Novel Materials...

To meet increasingly challenging and complex system requirements, as well as to stay cost effective, it is not enough to use one single semiconductor materials system. Major efforts have, therefore, been made to combine the low cost and well established Si-based CMOS processing attributes with the superior performance attributes of compound semiconductors (CS). Such a combination will enable performance superior to that achievable with either CS and CMOS alone, with CMOS affordability. The strong and increasing interest in GaN, GaAs, SiC and related alloys on silicon substrates indicates the...