Low-Dimensional Semiconductors: Materials, Physics, Technology, Devices: 3 (Series on Semiconductor Science and Technology) - Softcover

Kelly, M. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198517807 ISBN 13: 9780198517801

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

Synopsis

This text is a first attempt to pull together the whole of semiconductor science and technology since 1970 in so far as semiconductor multilayers are concerned. Material, technology, physics and device issues are described with approximately equal emphasis, and form a single coherant point of view. The subject matter is the concern of over half of today's active semiconductor scientists and technologists, the remainder working on bulk semiconductors and devices. It is now routine to design and the prepare semiconductor multilayers at a time, with independent control over the dropping and composition in each layer. In turn these multilayers can be patterned with features that as a small as a few atomic layers in lateral extent. The resulting structures open up many new ares of exciting solid state and quantum physics. They have also led to whole new generations of electronic and optoelectronic devices whose superior performance relates back to the multilayer structures. The principles established in the field have several decades to go, advancing towards the ultimate of materials engineering, the design and preparation of solids atom by atom. The book should appeal equally to physicists, electronic engineers and materials scientists.

About this title

Product Description:

Over the last 25 years, the performances of semiconductor devices have improved greatly; this book describes the science and technology that have made these advances possible. While mainstream silicon memory and microprocessor chips still work with uniform silicon as the starting point, the whole of both electronic and optical communication relies on multilayer semiconductor structures. The book provides a unified overview of the quantum physics behind these devices, advances with materials and technology, and the devices themselves; it is suitable as a text for undergraduates and graduates in physics, materials sciences, or electronics, as well as researchers in the field.

Review:

The practical forms of heterojunctions, multilayer structures and other microstructures are treated in depth and the wide range of devices utilising these stuctures are treated in theoretical, technological and applicability terms. (Aslib Book Guide, vol.61, no.5, May 1996.)

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0198517807
• ISBN 13: 9780198517801
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 568