Silicon Heterostructure Handbook: Materials, Fabrication, Devices, Circuits, and Applications of Sige and Si Strained-Layer Epitaxy

by John D. Cressler (Editor)

Appropriate for practicing engineers and graduate students, this dense collection details the many advances in using silicon germanium (SiGe) and silicon strained-layer epitaxy to practice bandgap engineering of semiconductor devices.

1249 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2005

About the author

John D. Cressler is a historical novelist and professor at Georgia Tech. He has published five non-fiction books (two for general audiences), but his real passion is historical fiction and he is obsessed with the rediscovery of “la convivencia” (peaceful coexistence of Christians, Muslims and Jews) in medieval Muslim Spain. "Emeralds of the Alhambra," an interfaith love story set in 14th century Granada, was his debut novel (released June 2013 by Sunbury Press), and the first book in the "Anthems of al-Andalus" series. Book two in the series, "Shadows in the Shining City," was released July 2014. Book three in the series, "Fortune's Lament," set in Granada at the fall of the sultanate in 1492 was released in April 2018. Book four, "Merchants of Iniquity," the final book in the series and a sequel to "Fortunes" was release May of 2024.