The Materials Science of Semiconductors

• Main Author: Rockett, Angus (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Subjects: Materials science.; Condensed matter.; Solid state physics.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Materials Science.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Solid State Physics.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.

The Materials Science of Semiconductors serves as a general textbook on semiconductors, and discusses semiconductors in detail, from the fundamental basis for their electronic structure to engineering of alloys and the effects of defects. Written for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in t...

Table of Contents:

• An Environment of Challenges
• The Physics of Solids
• Overview of Electronic Devices
• Aspects of Materials Science
• Engineering Electronic Structure
• Semiconductor Alloys
• Defects in Semiconductors
• Amorphous Semiconductors
• Organic Semiconductors
• Thin Film Growth Processes
• Physical Vapor Deposition
• Chemical Vapor Deposition.