Semiconductor heterojunction topics: Introduction and overview

Abstract Semiconductor heterojunctions with ideal lattice matching, well-controlled in fabrication, yield devices that cannot be achieved in any other way. These devices include modulated-doped high-speed field-effect transistors, ultra-high-gain and high-speed bipolar transistors, efficient injection lasers and light-emitting diodes and sensitive photo-detecting structures. Atomic reconstructions take place at heterojunction interfaces and are process-fabrication-dependent and not adequately understood. The barrier discontinuities observed are therefore scattered in value and also somewhat dependent on the determination method. Many papers in this Special Issue contain review aspects of these matters. Others, however, are specific contributions on very particular heterojunction topics. Not all aspects of heterojunctions are dealt with by the papers that follow, and the present article is intended for newcomers to the field as a brief commentary on topics that are not adequately represented.

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