This book offers a comprehensive overview of the development, current state, and future prospects of wide bandgap semiconductor materials and related optoelectronics devices. With 901 references, 333 figures and 21 tables, this book will serve as a one-stop source of knowledge on wide bandgap semiconductors and related optoelectronics devices.

III-Nitride semiconductor materials OCo (Al, In, Ga)N OCo are excellent wide band gap semiconductors very suitable for modern electronic and optoelectronic applications. Remarkable breakthroughs have been achieved recently, and current knowledge and data published have to be modified and upgraded. This book presents the new developments and achievements in the field. Written by renowned experts, the review chapters in this book cover the most important topics and achievements in recent years, discuss progress made by different groups, and suggest future directions. Each chapter also describes the basis of theory or experiment. The III-Nitride-based industry is building up and new economic developments from these materials are promising. It is expected that III-Nitride-based LEDs may replace traditional light bulbs to realize a revolution in lighting. This book is a valuable source of information for engineers, scientists and students working towards such goals. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy of Group III Nitride Materials (540 KB). Contents: Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy of Group III Nitride Materials (V Dmitriev & A Usikov); Planar MOVPE Technology for Epitaxy of III-Nitride Materials (M Dauelsberg et al.); Close-Coupled Showerhead MOCVD Technology for the Epitaxy of GaN and Related Materials (E J Thrush & A R Boyd); Molecular Beam Epitaxy for III-N Materials (H Tang & J Webb); Growth and Properties of Nonpolar GaN Films and Heterostructures (Y J Sun & O Brandt); Indium-Nitride Growth by High-Pressure CVD: Real-Time and Ex-Situ Characterization (N Dietz); A New Look on InN (L-W Tu et al.); Growth and Optical/Electrical Properties of Al x Ga 1-x N Alloys in the Full Composition Range (F Yun); Optical Investigation of InGaN/GaN Quantum Well Structures Grown by MOCVD (T Wang); Clustering Nanostructures and Optical Characteristics in InGaN/GaN Quantum-Well Structures with Silicon Doping (Y-C Cheng et al.); III-Nitrides Micro- and Nano-Structures (H M Ng & A Chowdhury); New Developments in Dilute Nitride Semiconductor Research (W Shan et al.). Readership: Scientists; material growers and evaluators; device design, processing engineers; postgraduate and graduate students in electrical & electronic engineering and materials engineering.

This issue of ECS Transactions focuses on issues pertinent to materials growth, characterization, processing, development, application of compound semiconductor materials and devices, including nitrides and wide-bandgap semiconductors.