Semiconductors

SemiconductorsIt is important to note that semiconductors are quite different from either metals or insulators, and their importance lies in the base that they provide to a massive microelectronics and optics community and industry. This book, written for graduate students, describes how quantum mechanics gives semiconductors their unique properties that enabled the microelectronics revolution and focusses on the electronic band structure, lattice dynamics and

increased food security and poverty reduction

and emerging technologies such as genome editing

Urban forestry

are sold as ‘ready to eat’ at the point of purchase

soft power and great power competition

In this lively and stimulating book Derek Birley looks at the part it played in shaping British society

Britain faced a number of challenges as it sought to adapt to domestic conditions of mass democracy while maintaining its position in the empire in the face of national independence movements

traces the development of the film and television industries and more

Set over a single day

from his own lifetime in the fourteenth century BC

Amalia Ulman

This chapter reviews the importance of increasing the adoption rate of improved maize technologies