Compound Semiconductors: Physics, Technology, and Device Concepts – PDF

This eBook, titled “Compound Semiconductors: Physics, Technology, and Device Concepts” by acclaimed author Ferdinand Scholz, provides a comprehensive overview of compound semiconductor materials and their technology. The book begins with a theoretical background and then goes on to describe the pertinent material preparation technologies, both for thin-layer and bulk epitaxial growth. It subsequently delves into the structural, optical, and electrical properties of semiconductors, complete with a description of the most popular characterization tools. The book then turns to the discussion of more intricate hetero- and low-dimensional structures.
One of the special chapters is wholly dedicated to GaN and related materials. The importance of GaN in the current electronic and opto-electronic devices landscape is highlighted along with their unique features compared to other compound semiconductors.
The last section of the ebook discusses electronic and optoelectronic device structures (LEDs, solar cells, laser diodes, field-effect, and heterojunction bipolar transistors) based on the peculiar properties of compound semiconductors explained in the preceding chapters.
Compound semiconductors are indispensable to all electronic and optoelectronic devices, after conventional Si electronics. At present, the most significant area of research pertains to solid-state lighting with highly efficient LEDs that emit visible light. Laser diodes of all wavelength ranges between mid-infrared and near-ultraviolet are the key enablers of a host of unprecedented applications such as CDs and DVDs for data storage and entertainment, not to mention the internet, which would not exist without optical data communications with infrared laser diodes.
This succinct ebook provides a comprehensive understanding of this class of materials. It incorporates the most important technological aspects for their fabrication and characterization. Moreover, it covers the most relevant devices based on compound semiconductors, making it an excellent introductory book for college students and engineers and scientists alike, who want to focus on this exciting field of science. Please be aware that this ebook only includes Compound Semiconductors: Physics, Technology, and Device Concepts in PDF. It does not contain any access codes.