Description
Book SynopsisThe second, updated edition of this essential reference book provides a wealth of detail on a wide range of electronic and photonic materials, starting from fundamentals and building up to advanced topics and applications. Its extensive coverage, with clear illustrations and applications, carefully selected chapter sequencing and logical flow, makes it very different from other electronic materials handbooks. It has been written by professionals in the field and instructors who teach the subject at a university or in corporate laboratories.
The Springer Handbook of Electronic and Photonic Materials, second edition, includes practical applications used as examples, details of experimental techniques, useful tables that summarize equations, and, most importantly, properties of various materials, as well as an extensive glossary. Along with significant updates to the content and the references, the second edition includes a number of new chapters such as those covering novel materials and selected applications.
This handbook is a valuable resource for graduate students, researchers and practicing professionals working in the area of electronic, optoelectronic and photonic materials.
Trade Review“Semiconductor specialists will find a lot of useful and up-to-date information in this volume. It has good sections on the most contemporary silicon technology and all of the III – V semiconductors are well represented along with the various structures that are grown in these materials. … there is much in this book that will have a lasting use and it is one that could usefully be in the office rather than the reference shelves of a library.” (P.J. Dobson, Contemporary Physics, Vol. 49 (01), January-February, 2008)
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Perspectives on Electronic Materials.- Electrical Conduction in Metals and Semiconductors.- Optical Properties of Electronic Materials: Fundamentals and Characterization.- Magnetic Properties: From Traditional to Spintronic.- Defects in Monocrystalline Silicon.- Diffusion in Semiconductors.- Photoconductivity in Materials Research.- Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Interfaces.- Charge Transport in Disordered Materials.- Dielectric Response.- Ionic Conduction and Applications.- Bulk Crystal growth: Methods and Materials.- Single Crystal Silicon: Growth and Properties.- Epitaxial Crystal Growth: Methods and Materials.- Narrow-Bandgap II-VI Semiconductors: Growth.- Wide Bandgap II-VI Semiconductors: Growth and Properties.- Structural Characterization.- Surface Chemical Analysis.- Thermal Properties and Thermal Analysis: Fundamentals, Experimental Techniques and Applications.- Electrical Characterization of Semiconductors Materials and Devices.- Single-Crystal Silicon: Electrical and Optical Properties.- Silicon-Germanium: Properties, Growth and Applications.- Temperature-Insensitive Band-Gap III-V Semiconductors: TI-III-V and II-V-Bi. - Amorphous Semiconductors: Structure, Optical and Electrical Properties.- Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon.- Ferroelectric Materials.- Dielectric Materials for Microelectronics.- Thin Films.- Thick Films.- III-V Ternary and Quaternary Compounds.- Group III Nitrides.- Electron Transport within the III-V Nitride Semiconductors.- I-VI Semiconductors for Optoelectronics: CdS, CdSe, CdTe.- II-VI Narrow Bandgap Semiconductors: Optoelectronics.- Optoelectronic Devices and Materials.- Liquid Crystals.- Organic Photoconductors.- Luminescent Materials.- Nano-Engineered Tunable Photonic Crystals.- Quantum Wells, Super Lattices and Bandgap Engineering.- Glasses for Photonics Integration.- Optical Nonlinearity in Photonic Glasses.- Solar Cells and Photovoltaics. – Disordered Semiconductors on mechanically Flexible Substrates for Large-Area Electronics.- Photoconductors for X-Ray Image Detectors.- Phase-Change Optical.- Carbon Nanotubes and Bucky Materials.- Graphene. - Magnetic Information-Storage Materials.- High-Temperature Superconductors.- Molecular Electronics.- Organic Materials for Chemical Sensing.- Packaging Materials.- Organic Solar Cells.- Materials for Terahertz Engineering.- Metamaterials.-Thermoelectric Materials.- Transparent Conductive Oxides.- Inorganic Pervoskite Oxides.
