Description: The highly industrialized world we live in depends for its survival and further growth, on advanced electronic technologies that place a premium on rapidly improved performance vs. size, weight, and cost. Advanced, high-performance computers, high-definition TV, digital camcorders, sensitive broadband imaging systems, flat-panel displays, robotic systems, and medical electronics and diagnostics are but a few examples of miniaturized device technologies which are of critical importance to emerging societal, industrial, and defense needs. This book provides the first multi-topical coverage of those thin film semiconductor, opto-electronic, superconductor, magnetic and ferroelectric/piezoelectric devices, and technologies responding to these requirements. Each topical volume acquaints readers with frontier developments of newly emerging film devices and technologies, which in the near future will both replace and supplement existing structures with higher performance alternatives. These volumes should function as a rich and informative text for researchers, students, engineers, and production technologists.

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