Handbook of thin film materials This five volume handbook focuses on processing techniques characterization methods and physical properties of thin films (thin layers of insulating conducting or semiconductor material). The editor has composed five separate thematic volumes on thin films of metals semimetals glasses ceramics alloys organics diamonds graphites porous materials noncrystalline solids supramolecules polymers copolymers biopolymers composites blends activated carbons intermetallics chalcogenides dyes pigments nanostructured materials biomaterials inorganic polymer composites organoceramics metallocenes disordered systems liquid crystals quasicrystals and layered structures. Thin films is a field of the utmost importance in todays materials science electrical engineering and applied solid state physics; with both research and industrial applications in microelectronics computer manufacturing and physical devices. 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 that depend the utilization of thin film materials. The Handbook of Thin Films Materials is a comprehensive reference focusing on processing techniques characterization methods and physical properties of these thin film materials Volume 1 Deposition and Processing 1 Methods of deposition of hydrogenated amorphous silicon for device applications 2 Atomic Layer Deposition 3 Laser Applications in Transparent Conducting Oxide Thin Film Processing 4 Cold Plasma Processing in Surface Science and Technology 5 Electrochemical Formation of Thin Films of Binary III V Compounds 6 Nucleation Growth and Crystallization of Thin Films 7 Ion Implant Doping and Isolation of GaN and Related Materials 8 Plasma Etching of GaN and Related Materials 9 Residual Stresses in Physically Vapor Deposited Thin Films 10 Langmuir Blodgett Films of Biological Molecules 11 Structure Formation During Electrocrystallization of Metal Films 12 Epitaxial Thin Films of Intermetallic Compounds 13 Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Films: Expectations and Reality 14 b Alumina Single Crystal Films Volume 2 Characterization and Spectroscopy 1 Classification of Cluster Morphologies 2 The Band Structure and Orientations of Molecular Adsorbates on Surfaces by Angle Resolved Electron Spectroscopies 3 Superhard Thin Film Coatings in C B N Systems: Growth and Characterization 4 ATR Spectroscopy of Thin Films 5 Ion Beam Characterization in Superlattices 6 In situ Real Time Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Studies: Carbon based Materials and Metallic TiNx Thin Films Growth 7 In Situ Faraday Modulated Fast Nulling Single Wavelength Ellipsometry of the Growth of Semiconductor Dielectric and Metal Thin Films 8 Photocurrent Spectroscopy of Thin Passive Films 9 Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy for Surface Study 10 Theory of Low energy Electron Diffraction and Photoelectron Spectroscopy from Ultra thin Films 11 In situ Synchrotron Structural Studies of the Growth of Oxides and Metals 12 Operator Formalism in Polarization Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy of Polarization Inhomogeneous Media 13 Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) and its Application to Thin Films Characterization 14 A Solid State Approach to Langmuir Monolayers Their Phases Phase Transitions and Design 15 Solid State NMR of Biomolecules Volume 3 Ferroelectric and Dielectric Thin Films 1 Electrical Properties of High Dielectric Constant and Ferroelectric Thin Films for Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Integrated Circuits 2 High Permittivity (Ba Sr)TiO3 Thin Films 3 Ultrathin Gate Dielectric Films for Si Based Microelectronic Devices 4 Piezoelectric Thin Films: Processing and Properties 5 Fabrication and Characterization of Ferroelectric Oxide Thin Films 6 Ferroelectric Thin Films of Modified Lead Titanate 7 Point Defects in Thin Insulating Films of Lithium Fluoride for Optical Microsystems 8 Polarization Switching of Ferroelectric Crystals 9 High Temperature Superconductor and Ferroelectric Thin Films for Microwave Applications 10 Twinning in Ferroelectric Thin Films: Theory and Structural Analysis 11 Ferroelectric Polymers Langmuir Blodgett Films 12 Optical Properties of Dielectric and Semiconductor Thin Films Volume 4 Semiconductor and Superconducting Thin Films 1 Electrochemical Passivation of Si and SiGe Surfaces 2 Epitaxial Growth and Structure of III V Nitride Thin Films 3 Optical Properties of Highly Excited (Al In) GaN Epilayers and Heterostructures 4 Electrical Conduction Properties of Thin Films of Cadmium Compounds 5 Carbon Containing Heteroepitaxial Silicon and Silicon Germanium Thin Films on Si(001) 6 Low Frequency Noise Spectroscopy for Characterization of Polycrystalline Semiconducting Thin Films and Polysilicon Thin Film Transistors 7 Germanium Thin Films on Silicon for Detection of Near Infrared Light 8 Physical Properties of Amorphous Gallium Arsenide 9 Amorphous Carbon Thin Films 10 High Tc Superconducting Thin Films 11 Electronic and Optical Properties of Strained Semiconductor Films of Group V and III V Materials 12 Growth Structure and Properties of Plasma Deposited Amorphous Hydrogenated Carbon Nitrogen Films 13 Conductive Metal Oxide Thin Films Volume 5 Magnetic Thin Films 1 Nanoimprinting Techniques 2 The Energy Gap of Clusters Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots 3 Electronic States In GaAs AlAs Short period Superlattices: Energy Levels and Symmetry 4 Spin Waves in Thin Films Multi Layers and Superlattices 5 Quantum Well Interference in Double Quantum Wells 6 Electro optical and Transport Properties of Quasi Two Dimensional Nanostructured Materials 7 Magnetism of Nanoscale Composite Films 8 Thin Magnetic Films 9 Magnetotransport Effects in Semiconductors 10 Thin Films for High Density Magnetic Recording 11 Nuclear Resonance in Magnetic Thin Films and Multilayers 12 Magnetic Characterization of Superconducting Thin Films