This book serves to up-date an earlier publication by one of the authors, and offers guidance and best practice in electrical measurements applicable to any required accuracy level.

Concentrating on presenting a thorough analysis of DFB lasers from a level suitable for research students, Distributed Feedback Semiconductor Lasers emphasises and gives extensive coverage of computer aided modelling techniques.

The book is in five parts: Part 1: Introduction to polymers and electrical breakdown. Part 2: Treeing degradation in polymers. Part 3: Deterministic mechanisms of breakdowns. Part 4: The stochastic nature of breakdown. Part 5: Engineering considerations for breakdown testing and degradation assessment.

For the first time, this book presents a comprehensive analysis, based on electrons controlling the ion channel gates. The theory and gating model are extensively linked to published experimental observations. The intrinsic simplicity of electron gating elucidates mechanisms important to the functions of nerve cells.

This book presents the basic theory of the current comparator, methods of construction leading to high ratio accuracies and the operating principles of the various applications.

This book brings together the leading researchers, in high frequency analogue filters to highlight recent advances and identify promising directions for future development.

This book provides a state-of-the art review of modern families of digital instruments. For each family the book covers internal design, use and applications, highlighting their advantages and limitations from a practical application viewpoint.

This book provides fundamental and practical information on all aspects of GaAs processing and gives pragmatic advice on cleaning and passivation, wet and dry etching and photolithography.