Presents a complete overview of the rapidly expanding field of compound semiconductors and their applications in devices

Includes detailed description of the nitride based technologies

Serves students at the Master's and PhD levels and their instructors

Can serve as required reading in semiconductor devices courses

Includes chapter-end summaries, exercises and questions, as well as answers to the exercises and questions

Gives a complete pedagogical introduction to III-V compound semiconductors Includes detailed description of the nitride-based technologies Includes chapter-end problems, clear schematics and suggestions for further reading

Autorentext

Keh-Yung Norman Cheng received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1975 and currently is the Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the National Tsing Hua University. In 1979-81 he was a member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Since 1987 he was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He became an emeritus professor in August 2010 and joined the Electrical Engineering Department of the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. His special fields of interest are molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), compound semiconductor optoelectronic, and nanostructure device technologies. He has authored or coauthored over 400 journal and conference papers, and two book chapters. He is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS, and a recipient of the 2007 MBE Innovator Award.

Inhalt

Part I Semiconductor Fundamentals.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Atomic Bonding and Crystal Structure.- 3 Electronic Band Structures of Solids.- Part II Compound Semiconductor Materials.- 4 Compound Semiconductors crystals.- 5 Material Technologies.- Part III Properties of Heterostructures.- 6 Heterostructure Fundamentals.- 7 Electrical Properties of Compound Semiconductor Heterostructures.- 8 Optical Properties of Compound Semiconductor Heterostructures.- Part IV Heterostructure Devices.- 9 Heterostructure Electronic Devices.- 10 Semiconductor lasers and Light-Emitting diodes.- Appendix.