This handbook treats the fundamentals, technology and nanotechnology of nitride semiconductors with an extraordinary clarity and depth. It presents all the necessary basics of semiconductor and device physics and engineering together with an extensive reference section.

Vol. 1:
I. General Properties of Nitrides
II. Electronic Band Structure and Polarization Effects
III. Growth and Growth Methods of Nitride Semiconductors
IV. Extended Defects, Point Defects, Role of Hydrogen, Doping including Transition Metals

Vol. 2:
I. Metal Contacts to GaN and Processing
II. Determination of Impurity and Carrier Concentrations
III. Carrier Transport in Semiconductors
IV. The p n Junction
V. Optical Processes in Semiconductors and Optical Properties of Nitride Semiconductors and Heterostructures

Vol. 3:
I. Light Emitting Diodes and Lighting
II. Semiconductor Lasers
III. Field Effect Transistors and Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors