Springer Handbook of Electronic and Photonic Materials (eBook)

Safa Kasap is currently a Distinguished Professor of Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He obtained his B.Sc. (1976), M.Sc. (1978) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, UK, specializing in amorphous semiconductors and chalcogenide glasses. In 1996 he was awarded the D.Sc. (Engineering) from London University for his research contributions to materials science in electrical engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Optoelectronics and Photonics: Principles and Practices (2nd Edition) and Principles of Electronic Materials and Devices (4th Edition). Both textbooks are widely used by many major universities and professionals. He is the Deputy Editor in Chief for the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics. Peter Capper was formerly Materials Team Leader at SELEX ES, which is now part of Leonardo-Finmeccanica. Dr. Capper obtained his B.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1971) in Chemical Physics and Physics from Essex University and Portsmouth Polytechnic, UK, respectively. He has spent some 40 years in the infrared industry growing and characterizing cadmium mercury telluride (CMT) and other tellurium-based materials. He holds patents in the bulk growth of CMT, has authored/co-authored over 100 papers and given several invited talks at international crystal growth/infrared (IR) conferences. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and an Editor for the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics. He has edited/co-edited 10 books in IR materials and devices and crystal growth.  

Introduction: Perspectives on Electronic Materials.- Electrical Conduction in  Metals and Semiconductors.- Optical Properties of Electronic Materials: Fundamentals and Characterization.- Magnetic Properties: From Traditional to Spintronic.- Defects in Monocrystalline Silicon.- Diffusion in Semiconductors.- Photoconductivity in Materials Research.- Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Interfaces.- Charge Transport in Disordered Materials.- Dielectric Response.- Ionic Conduction and Applications.- Bulk Crystal growth: Methods and Materials.- Single Crystal Silicon: Growth and Properties.- Epitaxial Crystal Growth: Methods and Materials.- Narrow-Bandgap II-VI Semiconductors: Growth.- Wide Bandgap II-VI Semiconductors: Growth and Properties.- Structural Characterization.- Surface Chemical Analysis.- Thermal Properties and Thermal Analysis: Fundamentals, Experimental Techniques and Applications.- Electrical Characterization of Semiconductors Materials and Devices.- Single-Crystal Silicon: Electrical and Optical Properties.- Silicon-Germanium: Properties, Growth and Applications.- Temperature-Insensitive Band-Gap III-V Semiconductors: TI-III-V and II-V-Bi. - Amorphous Semiconductors: Structure, Optical and Electrical Properties.- Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon.- Ferroelectric Materials.- Dielectric Materials for Microelectronics.- Thin Films.- Thick Films.- III-V Ternary and Quaternary Compounds.- Group III Nitrides.- Electron Transport within the III-V Nitride Semiconductors.- I-VI Semiconductors for Optoelectronics: CdS, CdSe, CdTe.- II-VI Narrow Bandgap Semiconductors: Optoelectronics.- Optoelectronic Devices and Materials.- Liquid Crystals.- Organic Photoconductors.- Luminescent Materials.- Nano-Engineered Tunable Photonic Crystals.- Quantum Wells, Super Lattices and Bandgap Engineering.- Glasses for Photonics Integration.- Optical Nonlinearity in Photonic Glasses.- Solar Cells and Photovoltaics. – Disordered Semiconductors on mechanically Flexible Substrates for Large-Area Electronics.- Photoconductors for X-Ray Image Detectors.- Phase-Change Optical.- Carbon Nanotubes and Bucky Materials.- Graphene. - Magnetic Information-Storage Materials.- High-Temperature Superconductors.- Molecular Electronics.- Organic Materials for Chemical Sensing.- Packaging Materials.- Organic Solar Cells.- Materials for Terahertz Engineering.- Metamaterials.-Thermoelectric Materials.- Transparent Conductive Oxides.- Inorganic Pervoskite Oxides.