Silicon Heterostructure Handbook: Materials, Fabrication, Devices, Circuits and Applications of SiGe and Si Strained-Layer Epitaxy

Bringing the many aspects of SI heterostructures into one convenient resource, this book presents a comprehensive perspective of the field. It covers topics ranging from materials to fabrication to devices to CAD to circuits and applications. Each chapter is written by a leading international expert, ensuring adequate depth of coverage, up-to-date research results, and a comprehensive list of seminal references. A novel aspect of this handbook is that it contains 'snap-shot' views of industrial state-of-the-art for devices and circuits and is designed to provide the reader with a useful basis of comparison for the current status and future course of the global Si heterostructure industry.