Semiconductors: Data Handbook: Otfried Madelung (Ed.); Springer, ISBN 3-540-40488-0

The data on the properties of semiconductor materials are scattered over many decades in time and many journals. One must spend an inordinate amount of time and effort to gather the information needed. The editor has compiled from the 17 volumes of the New Series of the Landolt-Bornstein data handbook which deals with semiconductors. This handbook contains information on many semiconductors materials, and consists of seven parts starting with some introductory remarks. Part II gives information about the properties of tetrahedrally bonded semiconducting elements and compounds. Parts III–V cover further groups of semiconducting elements, binary and ternary compounds, respectively. Part VI presents some information about substances which are described elsewhere in the literature as having semiconducting properties. Part VII gives the Substance Index in order to facilitate the use of the book. The main objective of this book is to provide the reader with all the important parameters which characterise the above-mentioned semiconductors. The reviewer can recommend this handbook highly to senior undergraduates or postgraduates students, but researchers in semiconductor materials will also welcome the book and find things to interest to them. It serves as excellent reference manual for anyone who needs to find information on basic data of semiconductors.