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Lifetime spectroscopy is one of the most sensitive diagnostic tools for the identification and analysis of impurities in semiconductors. This book introduces a transparent modeling procedure that allows a detailed theoretical evaluation of the spectroscopic potential of the different lifetime spectroscopic techniques.

This book examines the effective electron mass in nanodevices, explaining changes in band structure of optoelectronic semiconductors, and offering insight into electronic behavior in doped semiconductors and nanostructures. Includes 200 problems and questions.

This book covers practical aspects of mass measurements, describing concepts of gravitational, inertial and conventional mass and the variation of acceleration of gravity, and Metric Convention and International Prototype Kilogram and BIPM standards.

The book describes the fundamentals, latest developments and use of key experimental techniques for semiconductor research. It explains the application potential of various analytical methods and discusses the opportunities to apply particular analytical techniques to study novel semiconductor compounds, such as dilute nitride alloys.

The book gives a description of the failure phenomena of ceramic materials under mechanical loading, the methods to determine their properties, and the principles for material selection.

This uniquely powerful microscopy technique has seen major innovations in the last decade, including pulsed-laser-assisted evaporation. As the most practical, up-to-date critical review of the field, this volume includes examples of APM from materials science.

This book surveys size- and shape-dependent effects in nanoferroics, the properties of these materials, approaches for describing size-dependent effects and chemical and physico-chemical nanofabrication methods for making nanoferroic materials and composites.

The book describes the fundamentals, latest developments and use of key experimental techniques for semiconductor research. It explains the application potential of various analytical methods and discusses the opportunities to apply particular analytical techniques to study novel semiconductor compounds, such as dilute nitride alloys.

This book merges theoretical and experimental works initiated in 1997 from consideration of periodical artificial dielectric structures comprising magneto-optical materials.

Bismuth-containing compounds comprise a relatively unexplored materials system that is expected to offer many unique and desirable optoelectronic, thermoelectric, and electronic properties for innovative device applications.

A variety of nanomaterials have excellent optoelectronic and electronic properties for novel device applications. At the same time, and with advances in silicon integrated circuit (IC) techniques, compatible Si-based nanomaterials hold promise of applying the advantages of nanomaterials to the conventional IC industry.

This up-to-date monograph provides a thorough review of the relevant data and properties of the transition-metal impurities generated during silicon-sample and device fabrication. This new edition includes important recent data and many new tables.

The thermal processing of materials ranges from few fem to seconds by Swift Heavy Ion Implantation to about one second using advanced Rapid Thermal Annealing.