Electronic Materials

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Structures of and Bonding in Electronic Materials

   • J. W. Brightwell

   Pages 1-7

3. Electron Energy Bands

   • L. S. Miller

   Pages 9-17

4. Electrical Properties of Semiconductors

   • A. Barr

   Pages 19-24

5. Optical Properties

   • L. S. Miller

   Pages 25-32

6. Interfaces and Low-Dimensional Structures

   • David A. Anderson

   Pages 33-45

7. Key Electrical Devices

   • R. H. Wallis

   Pages 47-65

8. Key Optoelectronic Devices

   • A. W. Nelson

   Pages 67-89

9. Thermodynamics and Defect Chemistry of Compound Semiconductors

   • D. T. J. Hurle

   Pages 91-110

10. Single Crystal Growth I: Melt Growth

    • J. B. Mullin

    Pages 111-126

11. Single Crystal Growth II: Epitaxial Growth

    • J. B. Mullin

    Pages 127-142

12. Amorphous Silicon-Electronics into the 21st Century

    • P. G. LeComber

    Pages 143-154

13. Control of Semiconductor Conductivity by Doping

    • E. D. Jones

    Pages 155-171

14. Silicon Processing: CMOS Technology

    • D. J. Foster

    Pages 173-191

15. Technologies for High-Speed Compound Semiconductor ICs

    • J. A. Turner

    Pages 193-210

16. Phosphors and Luminescence

    • Brian Ray

    Pages 211-223

17. Microstructural and Compositional Characterization of Thin-Film Semiconductor Materials by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)

    • A. C. Wright, J. O. Williams

    Pages 225-251

18. Dielectric Properties and Materials

    • Robert M. Hill

    Pages 253-265

19. Xerographic Photoreceptors

    • Michael G. Carter

    Pages 267-282

20. Piezoelectric and Pyroelectric Materials and Their Applications

    • R. W. Whatmore

    Pages 283-290

Electronic materials are a dominant factor in many areas of modern technology. The need to understand'them is paramount; this book addresses that need. The main aim of this volume is to provide a broad unified view of electronic materials, including key aspects of their science and technology and also, in many cases, their commercial implications. It was considered important that much of the contents of such an overview should be intelligible by a broad audience of graduates and industrial scientists, and relevant to advanced undergraduate studies. It should also be up to date and even looking forward to the future. Although more extensive, and written specifically as a text, the resulting book has much in common with a short course of the same name given at Coventry Polytechnic. The interpretation of the term "electronic materials" used in this volume is a very broad one, in line with the initial aim. The principal restriction is that, with one or two minor exceptions relating to aspects of device processing, for example, the materials dealt with are all active materials. Materials such as simple insulators or simple conductors, playing only a passive role, are not singled out for consider­ ation. Active materials might be defined as those involved in the processing of signals in a way that depends crucially on some specific property of those materials, and the immediate question then concerns the types of signals that might be considered.

• electronic material
• material
• signal

• Coventry Polytechnic, Coventry, England

  L. S. Miller

• Electronic Materials Consultancy, Malvern, England

  J. B. Mullin

• Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern, England

  J. B. Mullin

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