edited by Sadao Adachi (Gunma University, Japan)

This book covers the various material properties of bulk GaAs and related materials, and aspects of the physics of artificial semiconductor microstructures, such as quantum wells and superlattices, made of these materials. A complete set of the material properties are considered in this book. They are structural properties; thermal properties; elastic and lattice vibronic properties; collective effects and some response characteristics; electronic energy-band structure and consequences; optical, elasto-optic, and electro-optic properties; and carrier transport properties. This book attempts to summarize, in graphical and tabular forms, most of the important theoretical and experimental results on these material properties. It contains a large number of references useful for further study. Timely topics are discussed as well. This book will be of interest to graduate students, scientists and engineers working on semiconductors.

• Introduction
• Bonding and Structural Properties
• Thermal Properties
• Elasticity and Elastic Waves
• Phonons and Lattice Vibronic Properties
• Collective Effects and Some Response Characteristics
• Energy-Band Structure: Energy-Band Gaps of Bulk Materials
• Energy-Band Structure: Band Lineups and Heterojunction Energy-Band Diagrams
• Energy-Band Structure: Electron and Hole Effective Masses
• Other Major Properties Related to the Energy-Band Structure
• Optical Properties: Bulk GaAs and Related Materials
• Optical Properties: Quantum Wells and Superlattices
• Elastooptic and Electrooptic Effects
• Carrier Transport Properties: Bulk GaAs and Related Materials
• Carrier Transport Properties: AlGaAs/GaAs Heterostructures