Silicon-Germanium Carbon Alloys: Growth, Properties and Applications: 15 (Optoelectronic Properties of Semiconductors & Superlattices) - Hardcover

Pantellides, S.

9781560329633: Silicon-Germanium Carbon Alloys: Growth, Properties and Applications: 15 (Optoelectronic Properties of Semiconductors & Superlattices)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560329637 ISBN 13: 9781560329633

Publisher: CRC Press, 2002

Carbon (C) and Silicon Germanium (SiGe) work like a magic sauce. At least in small concentrations, they make everything taste better. It is remarkable enough that SiGe, a new material, and the heterobipolar transistor, a new device, appear on the brink of impacting the exploding wireless market. The addition of C to SiGe, albeit in small concentrations, looks to have breakthrough potential. Here, at last, is proof that materials science can put a rocket booster on the silicon-mind, the silicon transistor.
Scientific excitement arises, as always, from the new possibilities a multicomponent materials system offers. Bandgaps can be changed, strains can be tuned, and properties can be tailored. This is catnip to the materials scientist. The wide array of techniques applied here to the SiGeC system bear testimony to the ingenious approaches now available for mastering the complexities of new materials

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About the Author:

Sokrates T. Pantelides is presently the McMinn Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. He joined Vanderbilt University as the McMinn Professor of Physics after 20 years at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he served as a research staff member, manager, senior manager, and program director. He has held a concurrent appointment as Distinguished Guest Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Stefan Zollner is currently the Section Manager for Wireless Technology Analysis at Motorola in Mesa, AZ and an adjunct Professor of Physics at Arizona State University. He joined Motorola in 1997 after five years as Assistant Professor of Physics at Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory in Ames, Iowa.

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