Book Series: International Series on Advances in Solid State Electronics and Technology

Founding Editor:
Chih-Tang Sah
University of Illinois, 1961–1988;
University of Florida, 1988–2010;
Xiamen University, China, 2010–present

This series was established to rapidly publish research monographs, edited volumes, advanced textbooks, handbooks and authoritative reviews concerning the latest developments in the theory and practice in solid-state microelectronics. This series will include material physics, device physics and engineering and circuits for microelectronic applications. It will include transistors used inpresent and future generations of submicron integrated circuits and also solid-state materials and devices that emit and detect light, solid-state sensor, materials and devices that sense pressure, temperature, chemical vapour and liquid.

About the Series Editor

Dr. Chih-Tang (Tom and Chihtang) Sah has been an educator, pioneer engineer and eminent applied physicist for 50 years. As the head and manager of Physics department at the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation in Palo Alto, California, he built up and led the 64-person team which developed the first generation silicon integrated circuit technology during 1959-1964. Listed by ISI (Institute of Scientific Information) as one of the world’s 1000 most cited scientists during 1965–1978, he has presented about 200 invited papers and keynotes at international conferences and seminars at universities and written about 300 journal articles on transistor physics and history, and on integrated circuit technology. With the World Scientific Publishing Company, he has authored a 3-volume best-seller undergraduate semiconductor textbook in 1991, 1993 and 1996, and edited a dozen monograph volumes in the international ASSET series (Advances in Solid-State Electronics and Technology) which he founded in 1991, Dr. Sah is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Academia Sinica in Taipei, and a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He has been an Honorary Professor of Peking, Tsinghua and Xiamen Universities of China. For contributions in microelectronics, he was recognized by China’s National Honorary Doctorate on April 6, 2010 at the 89th anniversary of Xiamen University. Professor Sah has taught for fifty years in American universities, including his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Professor of Physics during 1962–1988. He has guided 50 PhD theses in Physics and in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has also guided the investigations of 50 industrial and academic postdoctoral associates and collaborators in semiconductor physics and silicon integrated circuit technology. Professor Sah has begun an association with the Physics Department of Xiamen University in China on research and teaching in applied, fundamental and foundation physics. (YBZ)

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