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This book presents the latest advancements in the rapidly growing field of non imaging optics. "Advanced Nonimaging/Illumination Optics" brings together experts in the field who present material on a number of important and growing topics in optics. The book provides essential information to practicing illumination and non imaging engineers and scientists, covering advanced topics and offering material from the leading edge of the field. Providing an overview of the field of non imaging and illu...

This book addresses graduate students and researchers wishing to better understand the liquid and supercritical fluid states of matter, presenting a single cohesive treatment of the liquid and supercritical fluid states using the gas-like and solid-like approaches. Bringing this information together into one comprehensive text, this book outlines how our understanding of the liquid and supercritical fluid states is applied and explores the use of supercritical fluids in daily life and in researc...

This companion to "Fundamentals of Solid-State Electronics - Study Guide" provides the solutions to selected problems listed in the book. Most of the solutions are for selected assigned problems from an introductory device core course taught to engineering undergraduates at the University of Florida from 1991 to 1996. The manual also contains an extensive appendix on state-of-the-art transistor reliability physics and engineering discussions and solutions which have been taught to advanced under...

A comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to the fundamentals and applications of magnetism As magnetic recording technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace-in digital data storage as well as video and audio applications-there is a growing need for a basic primer to help explain advances in the field. Written by industry expert R. Lawrence Comstock, this immensely useful guide combines an introductory treatment of the physics and material science of magnetism with clear, thorough, up-to-date covera...

This is a complete power supply designer's toolkit - including tested SPICE models - ready to run. It provides solutions to the most difficult problems facing power supply designers: shrinking size and increased thermal constraints. The CD-ROM contains every model in the book - in all three SPICE flavors - as well as demo versions of all 3 flavors so readers can start from scratch, install the software and simulate the book examples without any SPICE experience.

Integrated Circuit Mask Design teaches integrated circuit (IC) processes, mask design techniques, and fundamental device concepts in everyday language. It develops ideas from the ground up, building complex concepts out of simple ones, constantly reinforcing what has been taught with examples, self-tests and sidebars covering the motivation behind the material covered.

Would you like to add the capabilities of the Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) as a storage element in your silicon integrated logic circuits, and as a trimming sector in your high voltage driver and other silicon integrated analog circuits? Would you like to learn how to embed the NVM into your silicon integrated circuit products to improve their performance?This book is written to help you.It provides comprehensive instructions on fabricating the NVM using the same processes you are using to fabricat...

Semiconductor oxides are used in electronics, optics, catalysts, sensors and other functional devices. In their 2D form, the reduction in size confers exceptional properties, useful for creating faster electronics and more efficient catalysts. Nanostructured semiconductor oxides for the next generation of electronics and functional devices focuses on the development of semiconductor nano-crystals, their technologies and applications including energy harvesting, solar cells, solid oxide fuel cell...

There has been growing interest in the model of semiconductor lasers with non-Markovian relaxation. Introducing senior and graduate students and research scientists to quantum mechanics concepts, which are becoming an essential tool in modern engineering, Engineering Quantum Mechanics develops a non-Markovian model for the optical gain of semiconductor, taking into account the rigorous electronic band-structure and the non-Markovian relaxation using the quantum statistical reduced-density operat...

Advanced High Speed Devices covers five areas of advanced device technology: terahertz and high speed electronics, ultraviolet emitters and detectors, advanced III-V field effect transistors, III-N materials and devices, and SiC devices. These emerging areas have attracted a lot of attention and the up-to-date results presented in the book will be of interest to most device and electronics engineers and scientists. The contributors range from prominent academics, such as Professor Lester Eastman...

Advanced Laser Diode Reliability focuses on causes and effects of degradations of state-of-the-art semiconductor laser diodes. It aims to provide a tool for linking practical measurements to physical diagnostics. To this purpose, it reviews the current technologies, addressing their peculiar details that can promote specific failure mechanisms. Two sections will support this kernel: a) Failure Analysis techniques, procedures and examples; b) Device-oriented laser modelling and parameter extract...

Filling a gap in the literature, this up-to-date introduction to the field provides an overview of current experimental techniques, basic theoretical concepts, and sample fabrication methods. Following an introduction, this monograph deals with optically active quantum dots and their integration into electro-optical devices, before looking at the theory of quantum confined states and quantum dots interacting with the radiation field. Final chapters cover spin-spin interaction in quantum dots as...

Rad-hard Semiconductor Memories is intended for researchers and professionals interested in understanding how to design and make a preliminary evaluation of rad-hard semiconductor memories, making leverage on standard CMOS manufacturing processes available from different silicon foundries and using different technology nodes. In the first part of the book, a preliminary overview of the effects of radiation in space, with a specific focus on memories, will be conducted to enable the reader to un...

Solid-state batteries hold the promise of providing energy storage with high volumetric and gravimetric energy densities at high power densities, yet with far less safety issues relative to those associated with conventional liquid or gel-based lithium-ion batteries. Solid-state batteries are envisioned to be useful for a broad spectrum of energy storage applications, including powering automobiles and portable electronic devices, as well as stationary storage and load-leveling of renewably gene...

This text provides coverage of the models, governing equations and numerical techniques suitable for process simulation. It concentrates on such areas as chemical vapour deposition, metal-organic chemical vapour deposition, plasma processing, rapid thermal processing and crystal growth, as well as defining the basic principles of transport phenomena, gas phase and surface reactions in electronics materials processing. In addition, it explains how to apply practical numerical techniques used in p...