Brillson - An Essential Guide to Electronic Material Surfaces and Interfaces

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Brillson, L. J., author.

Title: An essential guide to electronic material surfaces and interfaces / by Leonard J. Brillson, Ohio State University.

Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2016] | ?2016 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016006828 | ISBN 9781119027119 (cloth) | ISBN 111902711X (cloth)

Subjects: LCSH: ElectronicsMaterials. | Surfaces (Technology)Analysis. | Spectrum analysis. | SemiconductorsMaterials.

Classification: LCC TK7871 .B748 2016 | DDC 621.381dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016006828

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN: 9781119027119

This book is intended to introduce scientists, engineers, and students to surfaces and interfaces of electronic materials. It is designed to be a concise but comprehensive guide to the essential information needed to understand the physical properties of surfaces and interfaces, the techniques used to measure them, and the methods now available to control them. The book is organized to provide readers first with the basic parameters that describe semiconductors, then the key features of their interfaces with vacuum, metal, and other semiconductors, followed by the many experimental and theoretical techniques available to characterize electronic material properties, semiconductor surfaces, and their device applications, and finally our current understanding of semiconductor interfaces with metals and with other semiconductors understanding that includes the methods, both macroscopic and atomic-scale, now available to control their properties.

Electronic material surfaces and interfaces has become an enormous field that spans physics, chemistry, materials science, and electrical engineering. Its development in terms of new materials, analytic tools, measurement and control techniques, and atomic-scale understanding is the result of nearly 70 years of activity worldwide. This book is intended to provide researchers new to this field with the primary results and a framework for new work that has developed since then. More in-depth information is provided in a Track II, accessed online, that provides advanced examples of concepts discussed in the text as well as selected derivations of important relationships. The problem sets following each chapter provide readers with exercises to strengthen their understanding of the material presented. Figures for use by instructors are available from the accompanying website. For more advanced and detailed information, the reader is referred to Surfaces and Interfaces of Electronic Materials (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2010) as well as the lists of Further Reading following each chapter.

On a personal note, the author wishes to acknowledge his Ph.D. thesis advisor, Prof. Eli Burstein at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Charles B. Duke at Xerox Corporation in Webster, New York for their inspiration and mentoring. Here at The Ohio State University, he thanks his many Electrical & Computer Engineering and Physics colleagues who have provided such a stimulating environment for both teaching and research. Most of all, the author's deepest thanks are to his wife, Janice Brillson, for her patience, love, and support while this book was written.

Columbus, Ohio July 31, 2015

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