Electric Refractory Materials

List of contents

Importance and research programme of electric refractory materials; survey of refractory matalloids - transition metal carbides, nitrides and diborides; bulk crystal growth; thin-film preparation; electronic structure; lattice vibrations, heat capacity, and related properties; electrical and thermal conductivity and related transport properties at low temperatures; high-temperature characteristics; surface electronic structures and surface reactivities; irradiation properties of electric refractory materials; transition metal carbide field emitters; NbN superconducting devices; solar absorbers - selective surfaces; metalloids for plasma-facing materials; synthesis of diamond from the gas phase; the electrical and optical properties of diamond; semiconducting diamond and diamond devices; SiC boule growth; epitaxial growth, characterization, and properties of SiC; silicon carbide power electronic devices; science and technology of boron nitride; boron phosphide; boron and boron-rich compounds; boron films; single crystal of AIN; AIN sintered polycrystal; GaN-AIN-InN blue light-emitting devices.

Summary

An exploration of electric refractory materials, this book covers developments of blue light-emitting diodes using GaN-based nitrides for laser and high-temperature and -frequency devices

Product details

• Authors: Yukinobu Kumashiro, Kumashiro Yukinobu
• Assisted by: Yukinobu Kumashiro (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2000
• EAN: 9780824700492
• ISBN: 978-0-8247-0049-2
• No. of pages: 768
• Weight: 1542 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Metallurgy, Metals technology / metallurgy, Materials science, Mathematics & science, Mathematics and science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / General