	Fundamentals of Semiconductor Lasers (Springer Series in Optical Sciences) by Takahiro Numai (Author) Fundamentals of Semiconductor Lasers explains the physics and fundamental characteristics of semiconductor lasers with regard to systems applications. The detailed and comprehensive presentation is unique in that it encourages the reader to consider different semiconductor lasers from different angles. Emphasis is placed on recognizing common concepts such operating principles and structure, and solving problems based on individual situations. The treatment is enhanced by an historical account...
	VLSI Memory Chip Design (Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics) (v. 5) by Kiyoo Itoh (Author) This book features a systematic description of microelectronic device design ranging from the basics to current topics, such as low-power/ultralow-voltage designs including subthreshold current reduction, memory subsystem designs for modern DRAMs and various on-chip supply-voltage conversion techniques. It also covers process and device issues as well as design issues relating to systems, circuits, devices and processes, such as signal-to-noise and redundancy.
	Thin-Film Solar Cells: Next Generation Photovoltaics and Its Applications (Springer Series in Photonics) by Yoshihiro Hamakawa (Editor) This is the first comprehensive book on thin-film solar cells which might become a key technology to solve the energy production problem in the 21st century in an environmentally friendly way. It covers a wide range of scienctific and technologic aspects of thin film semiconductors - deposition technologies, growth mechanism and the basic properties of amorphous silicon, nano-crystalline silicon - as well as the optimum design theory and device physics of high-efficiency solar cells, especially...

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The manipulation of electric charge in bulk semiconductors and their heterostructures is the basis of nearly all modern electronic and opto-electronic devices. Recent studies of spin-dependent phenomena in semiconductors open the door to technologies that harness the spin of the electron in semiconductor devices. In addition to providing spin-dependent analogies that extend existing electronic devices into the realm of semiconductor "spintronics," the spin degree of freedom also offers prospects for fundamentally new functionality in the quantum domain, ranging from storage to computation. This is likely to play a crucial role in the information technologies in the 21st century. This book, written by a team of experts, provides an overview of emerging concepts in this rapidly developing field. The topics range from spin transport and injection in semiconductors and their heterostructures to coherent processes and computation in semiconductor quantum structures and microcavities.

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	Introduction to Spintronics by Supriyo Bandyopadhyay (Author), Marc Cahay (Author) Using spin to replace or augment the role of charge in signal processing devices, computing systems and circuits may improve speed, power consumption, and device density in some cases—making the study of spinone of the fastest-growing areas in micro- and nanoelectronics. With most of the literature on the subject still highly advanced and heavily theoretical, the demand for a practical introduction to the concepts relating to spin has only now been filled. Explains effects such as giant...
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	The Physics of Low-dimensional Semiconductors: An Introduction by John H. Davies (Author) Low-dimensional systems have revolutionized semiconductor physics and had a tremendous impact on technology. Using simple physical explanations, with reference to examples from actual devices, this book introduces the general principles essential to low-dimensional semiconductors. The author presents a formalism that describes low-dimensional semiconductor systems, studying two key systems in detail: the two-dimensional electron gas, employed in field-effect transistors, and the quantum well,...
	Transport in Nanostructures by David K. Ferry (Author), Stephen M. Goodnick (Author), Jonathan Bird (Author) The advent of semiconductor structures whose characteristic dimensions are smaller than the mean free path of carriers has led to the development of novel devices, and advances in theoretical understanding of mesoscopic systems or nanostructures. This book has been thoroughly revised and provides a much-needed update on the very latest experimental research into mesoscopic devices and develops a detailed theoretical framework for understanding their behavior. Beginning with the key observable...