Silicon-Based Material and Devices, Two-Volume Set: Materials and Processing, Properties and Devices

Key Features
* Covers silicon-based materials and devices
* Include types of materials, their processing, fabrication, physical properties and device applications
* Role of silicon-based materials in electronic and photonic technology
* A very special topic presented in a timely manner and in a format

Audience: This book is aimed for the scientists and upper level graduate students working in solid state physics, materials science, optical engineering and photophysics, electrical and electronic engineering, liquic crystals displays, information technology and semiconductor industries.

Many industries around the world are engaged in silicon-based technology for new millennium because these materials have broad applications in both electronic and photonic technologies. The present microelectronics technology is based on silicon materials and they are expected to play more significant role in next generation technology.
Silicon-Based Materials and Devices presents a highly coherent coverage to this subject in a single reference and demonstrates how silicon-based materials play an important role in current electronic and photonic technologies. The different topics covered in this book include amorphous silicon dioxide, related issues on reliability and novel applications, non-crystalline and nanostructured silicon-based alloys,
amorphous silicon carbide films, silicon carbon nitrides, silicon carbide related materials, kinetics of silicon chemical vapor deposition from silane and chlorosilane, magnetic properties of spark-processed silicon,
wet-chemical conditioning of silicon, optical and electron spin resonance properties of point defects in silica, refractive index of silica glasses.
The applications of silicon-based materials in electronic and photonics have been extensively discussed. The various topics include porous silica microvativities, polycrystalline silicon-based thin film transistors for integrated active-matrix liquid-crystal displays, light emission in silicon and erbium in silicon and silicon-germanium.

This reference should be a valuable resource for scientists, engineers, and graduate students working in solid state physics, materials science,
chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, optical engineering,
microelectronics, data storage, information technology and semiconductor technology.

Dr. H. S. Nalwa is the Managing Director of the Stanford Scientific Corporation, Los Angeles, California. He was Head of Department and R&D Manager at the Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation in Los Angeles (1999-2000) and a staff scientist at the Hitachi Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Japan (1990-1999). He has authored more than 150 scientific articles and 18 patents on electronic and photonic materials and devices. He has edited the following books: Ferroelectric Polymers (Marcel Dekker, 1995), Nonlinear Optics of Organic Molecules and Polymers (CRC Press, 1997), Organic Electroluminescent Materials and Devices (Gordon & Breach, 1997), Handbook of Organic Conductive Molecules and Polymers, Vol. 1-4 (John Wiley & Sons, 1997), Low and High Dielectric Constant Materials Vol. 1-2 (Academic Press, 1999), Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology, Vol. 1-5 (Academic Press, 1999), Handbook of Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices, Vol. 1-10 (Academic Press, 2000), Advanced Functional Molecules and Polymers, Vol. 1-4 (Gordon & Breach, 2001), Photodetectors and Fiber Optics (Academic Press, 2001), Supramolecular Photosensitive and Electroactive Materials (Academic Press, 2001), Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology (Academic Press, 2001), Handbook of Thin Film Materials, Vol. 1-5 (Academic Press, 2001), and Handbook of Surfaces and Interfaces of Materials, Vol. 1-5 (Academic Press, 2001). The Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology (Vol. 1-5) edited by him received the 1999 Award of Excellence from the Association of AmericanPublishers.Dr. Nalwa serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Macromolecular Science-Physics, Applied Organometallic Chemistry (1993-1999), International Journal of Photoenergy,andPhotonics Science News. He was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Porphyrin.