Quaternary Alloys Based on IV-VI and IV-VI2 Semiconductors [Paperback]

Chapter 1: Systems based on silicon sulfides. Chapter 2: Systems based on silicon selenides. Chapter 3: Systems based on silicon telluride. Chapter 4: Systems based on germanium sulfides. Chapter 5: Systems based on germanium selenides. Chapter 6: Systems based on germanium telluride. Chapter 7: Systems based on tin sulfides. Chapter 8: Systems based on tin selenides. Chapter 9: Systems based on tin telluride. Chapter 10: Systems based on lead sulfide. Chapter 11: Systems based on lead selenide. Chapter 12: Systems based on lead telluride. References.

This book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students studying materials science, solid state chemistry, and engineering.

IVVI and IVVI2 semiconductors have attracted considerable attention due to their applications in the fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices as light-emitting diodes and solar cells. The electrical properties of these semiconductors can also be tuned by adding impurity atoms. Because of their wide application in various devices, the search for new semiconductor materials and the improvement of existing materials is an important field of study. Doping with impurities is a common method of modifying and diversifying the properties of physical and chemical semiconductors. This book covers all known information about phase relations in quaternary systems based on IVVI and IVVI2 semiconductors, providing the first systematic account of phase equilibria in quaternary systems based on IVVI and IVVI2 semiconductors and making research originally published in Ukrainian and Russian accessible to the wider scientific community. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students studying materials science, solid-state chemistry, and engineering. It will also be relevant for researchers at industrial and national laboratories, in addition to phase diagram researchers, inorganic chemists, and solid-state physicists.&lƒ;