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Research advances in III-nitride semiconductor materials and device have led to an exponential increase in activity directed towards electronic and optoelectronic applications. There is also great scientific interest in this class of materials because they appear to form the first semiconductor system in which extended defects do not severely affect the optical properties of devices. The volume consists of chapters written by a number of leading researchers in nitride materials and device technology with the emphasis on the dopants incorporations, impurities identifications, defects engineering, defects characterization, ion implantation, irradiation-induced defects, residual stress, structural defects and phonon confinement. This unique volume provides a comprehensive review and introduction of defects and structural properties of GaN and related compounds for newcomers to the field and stimulus to further advances for experienced researchers. Given the current level of interest and research activity directed towards nitride materials and devices, the publication of the volume is particularly timely. Early pioneering work by Pankove and co-workers in the 1970s yielded a metal-insulator-semiconductor GaN light-emitting diode (LED), but the difficulty of producing p-type GaN precluded much further effort. The current level of activity in nitride semiconductors was inspired largely by the results of Akasaki and co-workers and of Nakamura and co-workers in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the development of p-type doping in GaN and the demonstration of nitride-based LEDs at visible wavelengths. These advances were followed by the successful fabrication and commercialization of nitride blue laser diodes by Nakamura et al at Nichia. The chapters contained in this volume constitutes a mere sampling of the broad range of research on nitride semiconductor materials and defect issues currently being pursued in academic, government, and industrial laboratories worldwide.
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright page
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Chapter 1: Introduction to defects and structural properties of III-nitride semiconductors
- Chapter 2: Dopants in GaN
- Chapter 3: Defect engineering in III-nitrides epitaxial systems
- Chapter 4: Magnetic resonance studies of defects in GaN and related compounds
- Chapter 5: Characterization of native point defects in GaN by positron annihilation spectroscopy
- Chapter 6: Persistent photoconductivity in III-nitrides
- Chapter 7: Ion implantation, isolation and thermal processing of GaN and related materials
- Chapter 8: Radiation and processed induced defects in GaN
- Chapter 9: Residual stress in III–V nitrides
- Chapter 10: Structural defects in nitride heteroepitaxy
- Chapter 11: Optical phonon confinement in nitride-based heterostructures
- Subject index