Handbook of nitride semiconductors and devices v. 3 GaN-based optical and electronic devices

Volume 3 of the Handbook of Nitride Semiconductors and Devices reference workdeals with nitride semiconductor devices and device technology. Among the application areas that are prominently featured in this volume are LEDs, lasers, FETs and HBTs, detectors and unique issues surrounding solar blind detection. INDICE: Preface 1 Light-Emitting Diodes and Lighting Introduction 1.1 Current-Conduction Mechanism in LED-Like Structures 1.2 Optical Output Power 1.3 Losses and Efficiency 1.4 Current Crowding 1.5 Packaging 1.6 Perception of Visible Light and Color 1.7 Visible-Light Terminology 1.8 Inroads by LEDs 1.9 Nitride LED Performance 1.10 On the Nature of Light Emission in Nitride-Based LEDs1.11 LED Degradation 1.12 LED Efficiency 1.13 Monochrome Applications of LEDs1.14 Luminescence Conversion and White-Light Generation with Nitride LEDs 1.15 Approaches to White-Light Generation 1.16 Toward the White-Light Applications 1.17 Organic/Polymeric LEDs (OLED, PLED) 2 Semiconductor Lasers Introduction2.1 A Primer to the Principles of Lasers 2.2 Waveguiding 2.3 Loss, Threshold,and Cavity Modes 2.4 Optical Gain 2.5 Coulombic Effects 2.6 Numerical Gain Calculations for GaN 2.7 Threshold Current 2.8 Analysis of Injection Lasers withSimplifying Assumptions 2.9 Recombination Lifetime 2.10 Quantum Efficiency 2.11 GaN-Based LD Design and Performance 2.12 Gain Spectra of InGaN Injection Lasers 2.13 Near-UV Lasers 2.14 Reflector Stacks and Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) 2.15 Polariton Lasers 2.16 GaInNAs Quaternary Infrared Lasers 2.17 Laser Degradation 2.18 Applications of GaN-Based Lasers to DVDs 2.19 A Succinct Review of the Laser Evolution in Nitrides 3 Field Effect Transistors and Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors Introduction 3.1 Heterojunction Field Effect Transistors 3.2 The s-Parameters and Gain 3.3 Equivalent Circuit Models, Deembedding, and Cutoff Frequency 3.4 HFET Amplifier Classification and Efficiency 3.5 AlGaN/GaN HFETs 3.6 Electronic Noise 3.7 Dielectrics for Passivation Purposes or Gate Leakage Reduction 3.8 Heat Dissipation and Junction Temperature 3.9 Hot Phonon Effects 3.10 InGaN Channel and/or InAlN Barrier HFETs 3.11 FET Degradation 3.12 Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors 3.13 Concluding Comments 3.14 Appendix: Sheet Charge Calculation in AlGaN/GaN Structures with AlN Interface Layer (AlGaN/AlN/GaN) 4 Ultraviolet Detectors Introduction 4.1 Principles of Photodetectors 4.2 Particulars of Deep UV Radiation and Detection 4.3 Si and SiC-Based UV Photodetectors 4.4 Nitride-Based Detectors 4.5 UV Imagers 4.6 Concluding Comments

• ISBN: 978-3-527-40839-9
• Editorial: Wiley-VCH
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 902
• Fecha Publicación: 22/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés