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Zusatztext 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This work describes the advances in semiconductor science and technology since the late 1970s, with multilayer semiconductor structures as the constant theme running through the book. It also describes new and exciting quantum physics, advances with materials and technology, and the devices themselves, in a unified and coherent overview. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 1: Resumé of bulk semiconductor physics 2: III-V semiconductor homojunctions and heterojunctions 3: Fabrication technologies for semiconductor microstructures 4: Low dimensional physics 5: The two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) 6: The one dimensional electron gas (1DEG) 7: Hot electron phenomena 8: Tunnelling phenomena 9: Superlattices and minibands 10: Quantum wells and their optical properties 11: Quantum pillars and boxes: electronic and optical properties 12: Mesoscopic phenomena and coulomb blockade 13: Exotic materials combinations: new physics including strain 14: Silicon and silicon heterojunctions 15: Thermal, mechanical and other properties 16: Devices I: field effect and heterojunction bipolar transistors 17: Devices II: Microwave diodes 18: Devices III: lasers, modulators and detectors 19: Devices IV: infrared and solar devices 20: Amorphous semiconductor multilayers 21: Towards 2000 22: Radical alternatives Appendices ...
