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Compositional Modulation and Ordering in Semiconductors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2013

Thomas P. Pearsall  and
Gerald B. Stringfellow
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The science of materials as a specific discipline is a relatively modern development. Within this rather modern field, the study of semiconductor materials is an even more recent development. Modern textbooks on materials science focus primarily on the properties of metals and second on the properties of ceramics, reflecting the commercial importance of these materials 50 years ago when the transistor was demonstrated using germanium. Today the commercial importance of semiconductor materials is comparable to that of metals and ceramics, and the advances in semiconductormaterials technology are driving rapidly growing business sectors in communications, software, and biotechnology.

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Compositional Modulation and Ordering in Semiconductors
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MRS Bulletin , Volume 22 , Issue 7 , July 1997 , pp. 16 - 19
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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