Silicon States

Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire Winner of the 800–CEO–READ Business Book Award in Current Events and Public Affairs In an era when faith in government and its institutions is quickly eroding, the businesses of Silicon Valley are stepping in to fill the gap. With outsize supplies of cash, talent, and ambition, a small group of corporations have been gradually seizing leadership—and consumer confidence—around the world. In Silicon States, renowned futurist and celebrated international think–tank leader Lucie Greene offers an unparalleled look at the players, promises, and potential problems of Big Tech. Through interviews with corporate leaders, influential venture capitalists, scholars, journalists, activists, and more, Greene explores the tension inherent in Silicon Valley's global influence. If these companies can invent a social network, how might they soon transform our political and health–care systems? If they can revolutionize the cell phone, what might they do for space travel, education, or the housing market? As Silicon Valley faces increased scrutiny over its mistreatment of women, cultural shortcomings, and its role in widespread Russian election interference, we are learning where its interests truly lie, and about the great power these companies wield over an unsuspecting citizenry. While the promise of technology is seductive, it is important to understand these corporations' possible impacts on our political and socioeconomic institutions. Greene emphasizes that before we hand our future over to a rarefied group of companies, we should examine the world they might build and confront its benefits, prejudices, and inherent flaws. Silicon States pushes us to ask if, ultimately, this is the future we really want.

Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire Winner of the 800–CEO–READ Business Book Award in Current Events and Public Affairs In an era when faith in government and its institutions is quickly eroding, the businesses of Silicon Valley are stepping in to fill the gap. With outsize supplies of cash, talent, and ambition, a small group of corporations have been gradually seizing leadership—and consumer confidence—around the world. In Silicon States, renowned futurist and celebrated international think–tank leader Lucie Greene offers an unparalleled look at the players, promises, and potential problems of Big Tech. Through interviews with corporate leaders, influential venture capitalists, scholars, journalists, activists, and more, Greene explores the tension inherent in Silicon Valley's global influence. If these companies can invent a social network, how might they soon transform our political and health–care systems? If they can revolutionize the cell phone, what might they do for space travel, education, or the housing market? As Silicon Valley faces increased scrutiny over its mistreatment of women, cultural shortcomings, and its role in widespread Russian election interference, we are learning where its interests truly lie, and about the great power these companies wield over an unsuspecting citizenry. While the promise of technology is seductive, it is important to understand these corporations' possible impacts on our political and socioeconomic institutions. Greene emphasizes that before we hand our future over to a rarefied group of companies, we should examine the world they might build and confront its benefits, prejudices, and inherent flaws. Silicon States pushes us to ask if, ultimately, this is the future we really want.

One of the first books to cover advanced silicon-based technologies, Advanced Silicon and Semiconducting Silicon Alloy-Based Materials and Devices presents important directions for research into silicon, its alloy-based semiconducting devices, and its development in commercial applications. The first section deals with single/mono crystalline silicon, focusing on the effects of heavy doping; the structure and electronic properties of defects and their impact on devices; the MBE of silicon, silicon alloys, and metals; CVD techniques for silicon and silicon germanium; the material properties of silicon germanium strained layers; silicon germanium heterojunction bipolar applications; FETs, IR detectors, and resonant tunneling devices in silicon, silicon germanium, and d-doped silicon; and the fascinating properties of crystalline silicon carbide and its applications. The second section explores polycrystalline silicon. It examines large grain polysilicon substrates for solar cells; the properties, analysis, and modeling of polysilicon TFTs; the technology of polysilicon TFTs in LCD displays; and the use of polycrystalline silicon and its alloys in VLSI applications. With contributors from leading academic and industrial research centers, this book provides wide coverage of fabrication techniques, material properties, and device applications.

This book presents the most recent important ideas and developments in the field of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon and related materials. Each contribution is authored by an outstanding expert in that particular area. Contents:Structural Aspects:Structural Heterogeneities in Device-Quality Amorphous Hydrogenated Semiconductors (J A Reimer & M A Petrich)Local Structure of Dopants in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon (J B Boyce & S E Ready)Plasma Deposition of Amorphous and Crystalline Silicon: The Effect of Hydrogen on the Growth, Structure Electronic Properties (C C Tsai)Defects and Defect Dynamics:Thermal Equilibrium Effects in Doped Hydro-genated Amorphous Silicon (J Kakalios & R A Street)Kinetics of Carrier-Induced Metastable Defect Formation in Hydrogen Amorphous Silicon (W B Jackson & J Kakalios)Transient Photocapacitance Studies of Deep Defect Transitions in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon (J D Cohen & A V Gelatos)The Microscopic Structure of Defects in a-Si:H and Related Materials (M Stutzmann & D K Biegelsen)Electronic Transport, Trapping and Recombination:Transport and Tail State Interactions in Amorphous Silicon (W E Spear)Recombination in a-Si:H — Temperature and Field Quenching of the Photoluminescence (W Fuhs & K Jahn)Photo-luminescence in a-Si:H Films and Multilayers (W-C Wang & H Fritzsche)Amorphous Si-Ge Alloys:Optoelectronic Properties and the Gap State Distribution in a-Si, Ge Alloys (S Aljishi et al.)Multilayers and Interfaces:Differential Absorption Spectroscopy on Amorphous Silicon Quantum Well Structures (K Hattori et al.)Growth and Structure of Interfaces in a-Si:H/a-SiOx and a-Si:H/a-SiNx:H Multilayers and Heterojunctions (L Yang & B Abeles)and others Readership: Solid state physicists and electrical engineers.