Semiconducting Chalcogenide Glass IIProperties of Chalcogenide Glasses

✍ Scribed by Robert Fairman and Boris Ushkov (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier, Academic Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Series: Semiconductors and Semimetals 79
• Edition: 1st edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Chalcogenide glass is made up of many elements from the Chalcogenide group. The glass is transparent to infrared light and is useful as a semiconductor in many electronic devices. For example, chalcogenide glass fibers are a component of devices used to perform laser surgery.The properties of chalcogenide glass result not only from their chemical composition and atomic structure, but also from the impact of numerous external factors. A comprehensive survey is presented of the properties of chalcogenide glass under various external impacts. Practical recommendations are presented for a wide range of applications.Part II is the second part of a three-volume work within the Semiconductors and Semimetals series. The first collective monograph written by Eastern European scientists on the electrical and optical properties of chalcogenide vitreous semiconductors (CVS). Contributions by B.G. Kolomiets, who discovered the properties of chalcogenide glass in 1955!* Provides objective evidence and discussion by authors from opposing positions.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
List of contributors
Page ix

Preface
Pages xi-xiii
V.S. Minaev

Chapter 1 Information capacity of condensed systems Original Research Article
Pages 1-14
M.D. Bal'makov

Chapter 2 Charge carrier transfer at high electric fields in noncrystalline semiconductors Original Research Article
Pages 15-55
A. Česnys, G. Juška, E. Montrimas

Chapter 3 The nature of the current instability in chalcogenide vitreous semiconductors Original Research Article
Pages 57-114
Andrey S. Glebov

Chapter 4 Optical and photoelectrical properties of chalcogenide glasses Original Research Article
Pages 115-200
A.M. Andriesh, M.S. Iovu, S.D. Shutov

Chapter 5 Optical spectra of arsenic chalcogenides in a wide energy range of fundamental absorption Original Research Article
Pages 201-228
V. Val. Sobolev, V.V. Sobolev

Chapter 6 Magnetic properties of chalcogenide glasses Original Research Article
Pages 229-275
Yu. S. Tver'yanovich

Index
Pages 277-283

Contents of volumes in this series
Pages 285-307