Mechanical Properties of Semiconductors: Exploring Elemental, Binary, and Ternary Systems

重要的技術半導體包括元素半導體、二元半導體和三元半導體。在這些半導體群中，選擇了以下純淨的未合金化或強化化合物：元素半導體中的 Si、Ge、Ga，二元半導體中的 GaAs、SiC、CdTe，以及三元半導體中的 AlGaAs、GaAsP。需要注意的是，所選擇的三元半導體是基於 GaAs。本書的目的是介紹這些結構材料的機械性質，不論它們是以何種形狀、大小或生產方法製造，也不論它們的應用是什麼。由於半導體的廣泛應用和多樣性，無法探索它們的各種應用。

Joshua Pelleg received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, M.Sc. in Metallurgy at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, and Ph.D. in Metallurgy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. He has been in the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Materials Engineering Department in Beer-Sheva, Israel, since 1970, and was among the founders of the department, and served as its second chairman. He was the recipient of the Samuel Ayrton Chair in Metallurgy. He specializes in the mechanical properties of materials and the diffusion and defects in solids. He has chaired several university committees and served four terms as the chairman of Advanced Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Prior to his work at BGU, he acted as the assistant professor and then associate professor in the Department of Materials and Metallurgy at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. He was also a visiting professor in the Department of Metallurgy at Iowa State University; at the Institute for Atomic Research, US Atomic Energy Commission, Ames, IA; at McGill University, Montreal, QC; at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Applied Electronics Department, Yokohama, Japan; and in Curtin University, Department of Physics, Perth, Australia. His non-academic research and industrial experience includes the chief metallurgist in Urban Metallurgical Works Ltd., Netanya, Israel; research engineer in International Harvester Manufacturing Research, Chicago, IL; associate research officer for the National Research Council of Canada, Structures and Materials, National Aeronautical Establishment, Ottawa, ON; physics senior research scientist, Nuclear Research Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel; Materials Science Division, Argonne National Labs, Argonne, IL; Atomic Energy of Canada, Chalk River, ON; visiting scientist, CSIR, National Accelerator Centre, Van de Graaf Group Faure, South Africa; Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ; and GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA. His current research interests are mechanical properties, diffusion in solids, thin-film deposition and properties (mostly by sputtering) and the characterization of films, among them various silicides. His research activity is summarized in his publications in various scientific journals and in ten books published by Springer and Elsevier

Joshua Pelleg在以色列海法的以色列理工學院獲得化學工程學士學位，並在美國伊利諾伊理工學院獲得冶金學碩士學位，以及在美國威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校獲得冶金學博士學位。自1970年以來，他一直在以色列貝爾謝巴的本古里安大學材料工程系任教，並是該系的創始人之一，曾擔任該系的第二任主任。他曾獲得Samuel Ayrton冶金講座。他專注於材料的機械性能以及固體中的擴散和缺陷。他主持過多個大學委員會，並擔任本古里安大學材料工程系高級研究主任四屆。在加入本古里安大學之前，他曾在美國堪薩斯大學的材料和冶金系擔任助理教授和副教授。他還曾在美國愛荷華州立大學冶金系、美國原子能委員會的原子研究所、加拿大麥吉爾大學、日本東京工業大學應用電子學系以及澳大利亞柯廷大學物理系擔任訪問教授。他的非學術研究和工業經驗包括以色列內塔尼亞的城市冶金廠首席冶金師、美國國際收割機製造研究的研究工程師、加拿大國家研究委員會結構和材料部門的副研究官、以色列貝爾謝巴核研究中心物理高級研究科學家、美國阿貢國家實驗室材料科學部門、加拿大原子能公司、南非范德格拉夫集團法爾國家加速器中心的訪問科學家、貝爾實驗室、新澤西州默里山、GTE實驗室、麻薩諸塞州沃爾瑟姆。他目前的研究興趣包括材料的機械性能、固體中的擴散、薄膜沉積和性能（主要是通過濺射）以及薄膜的表徵，其中包括各種矽化物。他的研究成果概述在他在各種科學期刊上發表的論文和由Springer和Elsevier出版的十本書中。