Books in the Micro- and Opto-Electronic Materials, Structures, and Systems series

Complete with encyclopedic coverage of sapphire's growth and fabrication and numerous practical applications, this book also covers many unusual physical and chemical properties of sapphire, as well as the main trends in the evolution of growth methods.

This book introduces high power semiconductor laser packaging design, examining new technologies and current applications. It details challenges as well as various packaging and testing techniques.

This book offers a complete overview of photonic-enhanced materials from material development to a final photonic biomedical application. It includes fundamental, applied, and industrial photonics. The authors cover synthesis, the modification and the processing of a variety of (bio)polymers including thermoplasts (e.g.