Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1: Resumé of bulk semiconductor physics
2: III-V semiconductor homojunctions and heterojunctions
3: Fabrication technologies for semiconductor microstructures
4: Low dimensional physics
5: The two dimensional electron gas (2DEG)
6: The one dimensional electron gas (1DEG)
7: Hot electron phenomena
8: Tunnelling phenomena
9: Superlattices and minibands
10: Quantum wells and their optical properties
11: Quantum pillars and boxes: electronic and optical properties
12: Mesoscopic phenomena and coulomb blockade
13: Exotic materials combinations: new physics including strain
14: Silicon and silicon heterojunctions
15: Thermal, mechanical and other properties
16: Devices I: field effect and heterojunction bipolar transistors
17: Devices II: Microwave diodes
18: Devices III: lasers, modulators and detectors
19: Devices IV: infrared and solar devices
20: Amorphous semiconductor multilayers
21: Towards 2000
22: Radical alternatives
Appendices

Reviews

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