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1291 About the Authors Martin Abkowitz Chapter D.39 Webster, NY, USA Martin A. Abkowitz received his Ph.D. in Physics from Syracuse University in 1964. [email protected], During the period 1964–65, Abkowitz was Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Authors [email protected] Physics at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1965, Abkowitz joined the Webster Research Center (now the Wilson Center for Research and Technology) of Xerox Corporation where he was a Principal Scientist until retirement in 1999. Abkowitz is currently a Visiting Scientist at the University of Rochester. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He has 174 publications including 35 US patents. Abkowitz has made over 250 contributed and invited presentations at international conferences. Sadao Adachi Chapter D.31 Gunma University Sadao Adachi received his Ph.D. from Osaka University and is Professor of Electrical Department of Electronic Engineering, Engineering at Gunma University. From 1980 to 1988 he was with NTT Electrical Faculty of Engineering Communication Laboratories, Japan. He has published and presented over 200 Gunma, Japan technical papers and 20 textbooks on semiconductor physics and technology. His [email protected] current research interests include physical properties of semiconductors and new functional materials. Alfred Adams Chapter D.37 University of Surrey Alfred Adams studied at Leicester University, UK, and in 1964 Advanced Technology Institute embarked on postdoctoral research at the University of Karlsruhe, Surrey, UK Germany. His work on III–V semiconductors started in 1967 at the [email protected] University of Surrey where he is now a Distinguished Professor. He received the Duddell medal from the Institute of Physics in 1995 for proposing the use of strained quantum wells in III–V lasers and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996. Guy J. Adriaenssens Chapter A.7 University of Leuven Guy Adriaenssens received his Ph.D. from the University of Laboratorium voor Halfgeleiderfysica Washington, Seattle, in 1971. After a postdoctoral stay at the University Leuven, Belgium of the Saarland, Germany, he joined the University of Leuven, Belgium, [email protected] in 1973. His current research interests center on transport properties and the electronic density of states of amorphous semiconductors and chalcogenide glasses. Wilfried von Ammon Chapter A.5 Siltronic AG Dr. von Ammon studied physics at the Technical University of Munich and the Research and Development University of Regensburg. In 1981, he received his Ph.D. in physics from the Burghausen, Germany University of Regensburg. In 1982, he joined Wacker Siltronic and has been working [email protected] in research and development since then. His main focus was on silicon crystal growth (floating zone and Czochralski method), silicon-layer growth by chemical vapor deposition, neutron transmutation doping, thermal treatment of silicon and behavior of defects in silicon. In 1994, he managed a research project in collaboration with Sematech, USA, to assess 400 mm technology for the decision on the next-generation wafer. During recent years he has primarily been working on the development and improvement of 300 mm crystal-growth processes and on defect engineering of the silicon bulk. 1292 About the Authors Peter Ashburn Chapter C.22 University of Southampton Peter Ashburn received a Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering in 1974 School of Electronics from the University of Leeds and then joined the Philips Research Laboratories. In and Computer Science 1978 he joined the University of Southampton and is currently a Professor of Southampton, UK Microelectronics. His research interests include SiGe heterojunction bipolar [email protected] transistors (HBTs), ultimate CMOS and carbon nanotubes. He has published over 200 Authors papers in the scientific literature and has authored two books on bipolar transistors. Mark Auslender Chapter C.21 Ben-Gurion University Mark Auslender received a Ph.D in solid-state theory in 1977. He was of the Negev Beer Sheva a senior researcher at Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Branch of the Department of Electrical Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1991 he joined the and Computer Engineering Microelectronics Laboratory at the Department of Electrical and Beer Sheva, Israel [email protected] Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel as a grade A researcher. His present interests focus on micro- and nanometer-scale diffraction gratings, optical coherence in regular and disordered media. Darren M. Bagnall Chapter C.22 University of Southampton Dr. Darren Bagnall is a senior lecturer in the School of Electronics and School of Electronics Computer Science at Southampton University. His research has and Computer Science included pioneering work on molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) and Southampton, UK chemical vapor deposition (CVD) for the development of new nano and [email protected] quantum devices based on ZnO, silicon and silicon germanium. He has published over 50 refereed papers. Ian M. Baker Chapter D.36 SELEX Sensors Ian Baker received a Ph.D. in solid-state imaging devices at Southampton University and Airborne Systems Infrared Ltd. in 1973. His career in solid-state imaging has spanned the development of visible Southampton, Hampshire, UK imaging charge-coupled devices (CCDs) within Philips and second- and [email protected] third-generation infrared detectors at various companies. He has published over 75 papers and has over 30 patents in the field of electro-optics. His current interest is the development of advanced third-generation infrared detectors, including 3D imaging. Sergei Baranovskii Chapter A.9 Philipps University Marburg Professor Sergei Baranovskii received his Ph.D. (1981) in theoretical physics from the Department of Physics Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Marburg, Germany Petersburg, where he worked as a senior researcher until 1990. Since 1990 he has been [email protected] working at the Philipps University Marburg, Germany, where he got a Habilitation in Theoretical Physics in 1995. His research interests are devoted to charge transport and optical properties of organic and inorganic disordered solids. Mark Baxendale Chapter E.50 Queen Mary, University of London Mark Baxendale is a Reader in Nanotechnology at Queen Mary, Department of Physics University of London since 2002. The focus of his research is the London, UK physics and applications of carbon nanotubes. These applications [email protected] include molecular quantum electronic devices, probes for scanning probe microscopy and single-molecule detection. About the Authors 1293 Mohammed L. Benkhedir Chapter A.7 University of Leuven Mohammed Benkhedir received an M.S. in Physics from the University Laboratorium voor Halfgeleiderfysica of Annaba, Algeria, and holds a Lectureship at the Centre Universitaire Leuven, Belgium de Tebessa, Algeria. He is currently studying the electronic properties MohammedLoufti.Benkhedir and density of states in amorphous selenium by means of @fys.kuleuven.ac.be photoconductivity techniques at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Authors Monica Brinza Chapter A.7 University of Leuven Monica Brinza received an M.S. in Physics from the University of Bucharest, Romania Laboratorium voor Halfgeleiderfysica and a Ph.D. from the University of Leuven, Belgium. Her current research interests Leuven, Belgium focus on the transport properties of materials for photovoltaic applications and the [email protected] electronic density of states of amorphous semiconductors and chalcogenide glasses. Paul D. Brown Chapter B.17 University of Nottingham Paul D. Brown received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of Durham in School of Mechanical, Materials 1989. He is presently Reader in Materials Characterisation at the University of and Manufacturing Engineering Nottingham. His present research interests are concerned with the interrelationship Nottingham, UK between the structure, property and processing of structural, functional and [email protected] biomedical materials, assessed using a broad range of characterisation techniques, with emphasis on novel variants of electron microscopy. Mike Brozel Chapter C.23 University of Glasgow For most of his career, Mike Brozel has worked on the growth and Department of Physics and Astronomy assessment of semiconductors. Present investigations include Glasgow, UK instrumentation for the mapping of bulk GaAs and novel structures for [email protected] silicon nuclear particle detectors. An author of over 100 papers, he was the co-author with G. E. Stillman of Properties of Gallium Arsenide,3rd ed. and recently co-authored a chapter on GaAs in Bulk Crystal Growth. Lukasz Brzozowski Chapter D.45 University of Toronto Lukasz Brzozowski has extensive experience in optics, medical Sunnybrook and Women’s Research imaging, nanotechnology and product development. He is currently Institute, Imaging Research/ Department leading research on the development of a combined X-ray/magnetic of Medical Biophysics resonance imaging (MRI) system, and on the application of Toronto, ON, Canada [email protected] photo-excitable quantum dots for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Brzozowski was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal for the best applied Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in the year 2003. Peter Capper