"PALLAB BHATTACHARYA is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Solid State Electronics Laboratory at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.


His teaching and research interests include liquid-phase and molecular beam epitaxy of elemental and III-V compound semiconductors, materials characterization, electronic and optoelectronic devices and optoelectronic integrated circuits. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (1978) and was on the faculty of Oregon State


University (1978-1983). Since 1983 he has been at the University of Michigan. He was Invited


Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, during 1981-1982. He has published over 250 technical articles in archival journals. He received the Parker Rhodes Scholorship at the University of Sheffield, the L.L. Stewart Faculty Development Award at Oregon State University and the Research Excellence Award at the University of Michigan.


He was elected Fellow of IEEE in 1988. He is Editor of IEEE Transactions of Electron Devices and has edited Properties of Lattice-Matched and Strained InGaAs (INSPEC, UK, 1993) and Properties of III-V Quantum Wells and Superlattices (INSPEC, UK, 1996). He has served on the Advisory Board of the Electrical and Communications Systems Division at the National Science Foundation. He has also served on several other committees and panels in academia, government, industry and technical conferences.


Prelims.

Preface


About the Author


1 Elemental and Compound Semiconductors


2 Electronic Properties of Semiconductors 


3 Optical Processes in Semiconductors 


4 Junction Theory


5 Light-Emitting Diodes 


6 Lasers: Operating Principles 


7 Lasers: Structures and Properties 


8 Photodetectors


9 Special Detection Schemes 


10 Solar Cells


11 Optoelectronic Modulation and Switching devices


12 Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits 


13 Lightwave Networks 


List of symbols


Appendices


Index

NEW  AND  ENHANCED  FEATURES


-Chapter on lightwave networks that reflects the enormous progress in the field of fiber-optic


communication and the use of optoelectronic devices for this application


-Coverage of newer topics


                Nitrides and visible light emitters


                New types of modulators


                New devices such as the quantum cascade laser and the tunneling injection laser


-More detailed treatment of


                Distributed feedback lasers, surface-emitting lasers, avalanche and metal-semiconductor-metal


photodiodes, photo receivers and phototransistors.


                Transient phenomena and linewidth of lasers


-Includes more worked out examples and problems in every chapter to help both readers and


instructors


-Chapter Highlights sections to highlight new and attractive portions of each chapter


-Features a wealth of valuable appendices as vehicles for more rigorous treatment of selected


subjects