Multinary Alloys Based on IV-VI and IV-Vi2 Semiconductors

IV-VI and IV-VI2 semiconductors have attracted considerable attention due to their applications in the fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices as infrared lasers and detectors. 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 the phase relations in multinary systems based on IV-VI and IV-VI2 semiconductors, providing the first systematic account of phase equilibria in multinary systems based on IV-VI and IV-VI2 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 researchers of phase equilibria, inorganic chemists, and solid state physicists.

Key Features:

• Provides up-to-date experimental and theoretical information
• Allows readers to synthesize semiconducting materials with predetermined properties
• Delivers a critical evaluation of many industrially important systems presented in the form of two-dimensional sections for the condensed phases

Vasyl Tomashyk is a leading researcher at the V.E. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He graduated from Chernivtsi State University in 1972 (master of chemistry). He is a doctor of chemical sciences (1992), a professor (1999) and author of about 700 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings and 13 books (eight of them were published by CRC Press), which are devoted to the physical-chemical analysis, the chemistry of semiconductors and chemical treatment of semiconductor surfaces.