Book: Compound Semiconductor for
Integrated Circuits
This is the book version of a
special issue of the International Journal of High Speed
Electronics and Systems,reviewing recent work in the
field of compound semiconductor integrated circuits. There are
fourteen invited papers covering a wide range of applications,
frequencies and materials. These papers deal with digital,
analog, microwave and millimeter-wave technologies, devices and
integrated circuits for wireline fiber-optic lightwave
transmissions, and wireless radio-frequency microwave and
millimeter-wave communications. In each case, the market is
young and experiencing rapid growth for both commercial and military
applications. Many new semiconductor technologies compete for
these new markets, leading to an alphabet soup of semiconductor
materials described in these papers. The book also includes
three papers focused on radiation effects and reliability in
III-V semiconductor electronics, which are useful for reference
and future directions. Moreover, reliability is covered in
several papers separately for certain process technologies.
