Proceedings Of The Twelfth International Conference On The Physics Of Semiconductors

The Twelfth International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors was held at Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany, from July 15 to 19, 1974. The Conference was sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and we wish to thank this Organization as well as all the other Institutions and Companies listed on the preceding page for their substantial support. About 700 scientists from 31 countries came to Stuttgart in order to attend the Conference. Following the example of the previous Conference at Warsaw, a distinction was made between plenary invited and invited papers presented at parallel sessions. Altogether, the Proceedings contains 27 invited and 206 contributed papers. The members of the International Program Committee had the difficult task of making a selection from 550 abstracts. Their work was essential for the success of the Conference and it is gratefully acknow­ ledged. The number of pages alloted to each paper had to be limited in order to keep the Proceedings within reasonable size. In general, the papers in the Proceedings have been arranged according to the Conference Program except for the following changes: Each plenary invited paper was associated with an appropriate session, the sessions were put into a slightly different order and, in a few cases, new titles were introduced.

The Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors are contained in this volume. A record 1050 scientists from 40 countries participated in the Conference which was held in San Francisco August 6·1 0, 1984. The Conference was organized by the ICPS Committee and sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and other professional, government, and industrial organizations listed on the following pages. Papers representing progress in all aspects of semiconductor physics were presented. Far more abstracts (765) than could be presented in a five-day meeting were considered by the International Program Committee. A total of 350 papers, consisting of 5 plenary, 35 invited, and 310 contributed, were presented at the Conference in either oral or poster sessions. All but a few of the papers were submitted and have been included in these Proceedings. An interesting shift in subject matter, in comparison with earlier Conferences, is manifested by the large number of papers on surfaces, interfaces, and quantum wells. To facilitate the use of the Proceedings in finding closely related papers among the sometimes relatively large number of contributions within a main subject area, we chose not to arrange the papers strictly according to the Conference schedule. We have organized the book, as can be seen from the Contents, into specific subcategories and subdivisions within each major category. Plenary and invited papers have been placed together with the appropriate contributed papers.

The conference covered the current and future direction for research in the area of physics of semiconductors, such as growth, sufaces, and interfaces, defects and impurities, wide-band-gap semiconductors, molecular systems, and organic semiconductors, and others.

The Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors are contained in this volume. A record 1050 scientists from 40 countries participated in the Conference which was held in San Francisco August 6·1 0, 1984. The Conference was organized by the ICPS Committee and sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and other professional, government, and industrial organizations listed on the following pages. Papers representing progress in all aspects of semiconductor physics were presented. Far more abstracts (765) than could be presented in a five-day meeting were considered by the International Program Committee. A total of 350 papers, consisting of 5 plenary, 35 invited, and 310 contributed, were presented at the Conference in either oral or poster sessions. All but a few of the papers were submitted and have been included in these Proceedings. An interesting shift in subject matter, in comparison with earlier Conferences, is manifested by the large number of papers on surfaces, interfaces, and quantum wells. To facilitate the use of the Proceedings in finding closely related papers among the sometimes relatively large number of contributions within a main subject area, we chose not to arrange the papers strictly according to the Conference schedule. We have organized the book, as can be seen from the Contents, into specific subcategories and subdivisions within each major category. Plenary and invited papers have been placed together with the appropriate contributed papers.