Description: Advanced semiconductor technologies have been making significant advancements through the creation and application of new materials and processes that surpass traditional silicon's limitations. The wide-bandgap semiconductors such as Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride offer unprecedented opportunities for advancements in high-power and high-frequency microelectronic devices. The presented special edition will be useful to engineers and researchers whose activity is related to technologies of semiconductor structures growth for power electronics and microelectronics devices production.

Surface Layers - Structure-Property Relations

Edited by: M.A.J. Somers, E.J. Mittemeijer and J. Schoonman

Online since: March 1994

Description: Improvement of only the properties of the surface can largely improve the performance of the entire workpiece. Hence, engineering the surface by the application of surface layers has become of major importance.
Two, principally different routes can be followed to obtain a surface layer: (i) treating the surface of the original material (laser/electron beam hardening, plasma treatments, and thermomechanical treatments like carburizing and nitriding) or (ii) covering the surface with another material.

Effects of Modes of Formation on the Structure of Glass

Edited by: R.A. Weeks and D.L. Kinser

Online since: January 1987

Description: This second volume on the topic Effects of Modes of Formation on the Structure of Glass encompasses many aspects of glass science from the perspective of the processes by which the glassy state is achieved. This perspective will make this volume useful to those with an interest in the glassy state of matter. There are some novel and intriguing new processes for achieving the glassy state reported here as well as reports on unusual glasses.