Engineering Research
Materials Science
Engineering Series
Advances in Electronic Materials
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This special-topic volume, Advances in Electronic Materials, covers various fields of materials research such as silicon, silicon-germanium hetero-structures, high-k materials, III-V semiconductor alloys and organic materials, as well as nano-structures for spintronics and photovoltaics. It begins with a brief summary of the formative years of microelectronics; now the keystone of information technology.
The latter remains one of the most important global technologies, and is an extremely complex subject-area. Although electronic materials are primarily associated with computers, the internet and mobile telephones, they are used in many other applications which improve our overall quality of life. The progress made in traditional scientific fields now often depends upon new developments in electronic materials.
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Kasper (Institut für Halbleitertechnik, U. of Stuttgart, Germany) et al. compile eight articles on materials research in silicon, silicon-germanium hetero-structures, high-k materials, III-V semiconductor alloys and organic materials, and nano-structures for spintronics and photovoltaics. Articles also discuss the early development of microelectronics, basic requirements and applications of future materials systems and their connection to economics, nano-architecture and scalability issues, and alternative technologies that go beyond the flash technology. Contributors work in physics, semiconductor technology, and electrical and electronic engineering in Europe, Japan, and the US.