Insulating Materials For Optoelectronics

This review volume presents new developments in the preparation, physical characterization and applications of insulating materials for Optoelectronics. Insulators occupy a leading position as laser and optical amplifier hosts, electrooptic and acoustooptic modulators, frequency doublers and optical parametric oscillators, photorefractive devices and radiator detectors. These applications rely heavily on the development of advanced techniques for the preparation of both bulk and waveguide structures, the adequate knowledge of the microscopic behaviour defects, impurities and a thorough understanding of their response to electromagnetic fields. All these topics relating basic physicochemical aspects and applied performance are authoritatively discussed in the book. Contents:Pulsed Laser Deposition of Films for Optical Applications (C N Afonso)Preparation of Single Crystal Fibers (W M Yen)Preparation and Characterization of Composite Materials: Organic Molecules in Inorganic Hosts (D Levy)Characterization of Point Defects in Photorefractive Oxide Crystals by Paramagnetic Resonance Methods (O F Schirmer et al.)Hyperfine Techniques for Defect Studies (R Vianden)Optical Characterization of Solid State Lasers (L E Bausa & J G Sole)Channeling Investigations of Oxide Materials for Optoelectronic Applications (A Kling et al.)X-Ray Standing Wave Determination of Lattice Positions of Impurities in Lithium Niobate (T Gog & G Materlik)New Developments in the Simulation of Electrooptic Oxides (H Donnenberg)The Photorefractive Effect in Crystals (C Medrano & P Günter)Holographic Memories with Photorefractive Materials (C Alves et al.)Proton Exchange Waveguides in LiNbO3 and LiTaO3: Structural and Optical Properties (M P De Micheli et al.)Glasses for Optoelectronic Devices (P Mazzoldi & G C Righini)Application of Ion Implantation for Optoelectronics and Photonics (P D Townsend)Semiinsulating Material for Radiation Detection: HgI2 (E Diéguez & P Olmos) Readership: Materials scientists, physicists and engineers. keywords:Laser Heated Pedestal Growth (LHPG);Single Crystals;Crystal Fibers;Optoelectronics;Materials;Insulators;Electrooptics;Lithium Niobate;Waveguides;Photorefractives;Lasers;Defects;Optics;Single Crystal Fibers;Pulsed Laser Deposition;Solid State Lasers;Photorefractive Materials;Composite Materials;Hyperfine Techniques;Holographic Memories;Ion Implantation;Light Waveguides;Optoelectronic Devices

This review volume presents new developments in the preparation, physical characterization and applications of insulating materials for Optoelectronics. Insulators occupy a leading position as laser and optical amplifier hosts, electrooptic and acoustooptic modulators, frequency doublers and optical parametric oscillators, photorefractive devices and radiator detectors. These applications rely heavily on the development of advanced techniques for the preparation of both bulk and waveguide structures, the adequate knowledge of the microscopic behaviour defects, impurities and a thorough understanding of their response to electromagnetic fields. All these topics relating basic physicochemical aspects and applied performance are authoritatively discussed in the book.

These three day symposia were designed to provide a link between specialists from university or industry who work in different fields of semiconductor optoelectronics. Symposium A dealt with topics including: epitaxial growth of III-V, II-VI, IV-VI, Si-based structures; selective-area, localized and non-planar epitaxy, shadow-mask epitaxy; bulk and new optoelectronic materials; polymers for optoelectronics. Symposium B dealt with III-V epitaxial layers grown by low temperature molecular beam epitaxy, a subject which has undergone rapid development in the last three years.

The aim of the contributions in this volume is to give a current overview on the basic properties and applications of semiconductor and nonlinear optical materials for optoelectronics and integrated optics. They provide a cross-linkage between different materials (III-V, II-VI, Si-Ge, glasses, etc.), various sample dimensions (from bulk crystals to quantum dots), and a range of techniques for growth (LPE to MOMBE) and for processing (from surface passivation to ion beams). Major growth techniques and materials are discussed, including the sophisticated technologies required to exploit the exciting properties of low dimensional semiconductors. These proceedings will prove an invaluable guide to the current state of optoelectronic and nonlinear optical materials development, as well as indicating trends and also future markets for optoelectronic devices.

This volume will provide interdisciplinary treatment, with a strong materials community, for technical exchange on optoelecronic materials, device application, and system development. Proceedings of the symposium at the 103rd Annual Meeting of The American Ceramic Society, held April 22-25, 2001 in Indianapolis, Indiana; Ceramic Transactions, Volume 126.

This book focuses on the progress in optoelectronic materials research and technologies, presenting reviews and original works on the theory, fabrication, characterization, and applications of optoelectronic materials. The chapters discuss preparation and properties of several optoelectronic materials, such as ZnO, SnO2, Zn1-XSnXO, BaTiO3, GaAs, GaP, ZnSe, and NaAlSi. The structural, optical, vibrational, and magnetic properties are discussed, in addition to transport and phase transformations.

Each chapter in this book is written by a group of leading experts in one particular type of microprobe technique. They emphasize the ability of that technique to provide information about small structures (i.e. quantum dots, quantum lines), microscopic defects, strain, layer composition, and its usefulness as diagnostic technique for device degradation. Different types of probes are considered (electrons, photons and tips) and different microscopies (optical, electron microscopy and tunneling). It is an ideal reference for post-graduate and experienced researchers, as well as for crystal growers and optoelectronic device makers.

Reflecting rapid growth in research and development on organic/polymeric electronic and photonic materials and devices, Introduction to Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices provides comprehensive coverage of the state-of-the-art in an accessible format. The book presents fundamentals, principles, and mechanisms complem