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Semiconducting III–V compounds
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BOOK
LIFSHITZ have provided a well-planned and carefully executed book that serves to provide both a broad theoretical foundation in a currently active field and a bridge between topics often treated separately in books on electromagnetic theory and solid-state physics. The translators are also to be commended for a fine piece of work.
REVIEWS
concerning these materials are now both timely and very much needed. The book by HILSUM and ROSE-INNESrepresents a notable contribution to the literature on this subject. It is a book for the expert or the serious student, since it is quite compact and presupposes a reasonably thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of solid-state physics. Its usefulness R. W. P. KING is greatly enhanced by this element of conciseness, since in a little over two hundred pages the authors manage to touch upon most of the important contributions and to synthesize them into J. W. MULLIN: Crystallization. Butterworths, London, a palatable account, thus enabling the reader to 1961. 268 + ix pp., 60s. obtain a panoramic view of the entire field. For the reader wishing a more extensive treatment of IN THIS book crystallization processes are dealt any particular topic there is a fairly complete with primarily from the point of view of technobibliography referring him to the original delogical applications related to the manufacturing tailed references. of crystalline materials in the chemical industry. The subjects treated at length include crystal The first few chapters are devoted to some physipreparation and structure, the band structure as cal and chemical aspects of crystallization. In this deduced from experiment and theory, transport part a brief introduction to general crystalloand optical properties, and a succinct survey of graphy is followed by discussions of phase equilimany of the promising applications. While bria, nucleation and crystal growth. The treatment further progress has been made since the book of the above problems is based almost entirely on was completed in the latter half of 1960, many of macroscopic concepts and the emphasis appears the faund~ent~ facts treated here have become to be on simplicity, at the expense of rigour. The sufficiently well established that there is little remainder of the space is devoted entirely to danger of obsolescence with time for much of the processes and techniques of industrial crystallizamaterial included in the volume. tion. The authors have performed a particularly The book is intended to serve process chemists valuable service, since they have, in their own and engineers; it is not likely to be of more than words, “tried to concentrate on the processes casual interest to those who are not directly conwhich are peculiar to III-V compounds and not cerned with problems of industrial crystallization. to dwell on those aspects which are common to semiconductors in general.” Even in recent C. ELBAUM journals and books the III-V compounds are still treated too often as though they were identical in all respects to germanium and silicon. The C. HILSUMand A. C. ROSE-INNES:Semiconducting clear delineation of the differences between the groups III-V and IV semiconductors in such areas III-V Compounds. Pergamon Press, London, 1961. ix + 239 pp., 60s. as band structure and transport theory should help dispel some of the existing confusion. One F~ESEAIU-I on the III-V compounds has ex- minor criticism might be made concerning the perienced an extraordinary growth over the past absence of an author index which is particularly ten years. The advances made have been so subuseful to the research worker. It may be hoped that stantial that our knowledge concerning some of this omission as well as occasional typographical these compounds is becoming comparable with errors in the tables and references can be corrected that of germanium and silicon. Good comprein possible future editions of this book. hensive reviews of the subject to summarize and H. EHRENWXICH link together the various experiments and theories
BOOK
LIFSHITZ have provided a well-planned and carefully executed book that serves to provide both a broad theoretical foundation in a currently active field and a bridge between topics often treated separately in books on electromagnetic theory and solid-state physics. The translators are also to be commended for a fine piece of work.
REVIEWS
concerning these materials are now both timely and very much needed. The book by HILSUM and ROSE-INNESrepresents a notable contribution to the literature on this subject. It is a book for the expert or the serious student, since it is quite compact and presupposes a reasonably thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of solid-state physics. Its usefulness R. W. P. KING is greatly enhanced by this element of conciseness, since in a little over two hundred pages the authors manage to touch upon most of the important contributions and to synthesize them into J. W. MULLIN: Crystallization. Butterworths, London, a palatable account, thus enabling the reader to 1961. 268 + ix pp., 60s. obtain a panoramic view of the entire field. For the reader wishing a more extensive treatment of IN THIS book crystallization processes are dealt any particular topic there is a fairly complete with primarily from the point of view of technobibliography referring him to the original delogical applications related to the manufacturing tailed references. of crystalline materials in the chemical industry. The subjects treated at length include crystal The first few chapters are devoted to some physipreparation and structure, the band structure as cal and chemical aspects of crystallization. In this deduced from experiment and theory, transport part a brief introduction to general crystalloand optical properties, and a succinct survey of graphy is followed by discussions of phase equilimany of the promising applications. While bria, nucleation and crystal growth. The treatment further progress has been made since the book of the above problems is based almost entirely on was completed in the latter half of 1960, many of macroscopic concepts and the emphasis appears the faund~ent~ facts treated here have become to be on simplicity, at the expense of rigour. The sufficiently well established that there is little remainder of the space is devoted entirely to danger of obsolescence with time for much of the processes and techniques of industrial crystallizamaterial included in the volume. tion. The authors have performed a particularly The book is intended to serve process chemists valuable service, since they have, in their own and engineers; it is not likely to be of more than words, “tried to concentrate on the processes casual interest to those who are not directly conwhich are peculiar to III-V compounds and not cerned with problems of industrial crystallization. to dwell on those aspects which are common to semiconductors in general.” Even in recent C. ELBAUM journals and books the III-V compounds are still treated too often as though they were identical in all respects to germanium and silicon. The C. HILSUMand A. C. ROSE-INNES:Semiconducting clear delineation of the differences between the groups III-V and IV semiconductors in such areas III-V Compounds. Pergamon Press, London, 1961. ix + 239 pp., 60s. as band structure and transport theory should help dispel some of the existing confusion. One F~ESEAIU-I on the III-V compounds has ex- minor criticism might be made concerning the perienced an extraordinary growth over the past absence of an author index which is particularly ten years. The advances made have been so subuseful to the research worker. It may be hoped that stantial that our knowledge concerning some of this omission as well as occasional typographical these compounds is becoming comparable with errors in the tables and references can be corrected that of germanium and silicon. Good comprein possible future editions of this book. hensive reviews of the subject to summarize and H. EHRENWXICH link together the various experiments and theories