Note: Front Cover -- Luminescence and the Light Emitting Diode: The Basics and Technology of LEDS and the Luminescence Properties of the Materials -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- EDITORS' PREFACE -- AUTHORS' PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2. INTRODUCING LED CRYSTALS -- 2.1 Crystal Structure -- 2.2 Band Structure -- 2.3 Absorption -- 2.4 Optical Reflectivity -- 2.5 Phonon Spectra of Zinc Blende Structures -- 2.6 Electrical Properties -- CHAPTER 3. CRYSTAL GROWTH -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Phase Diagrams -- 3.3 Melt Growth -- 3.4 Vapour Epitaxial Growth -- 3.5 Solution Epitaxial Growth -- 3.6 Molecular Beam Epitaxy -- 3.7 Electron Beam Plasma Technique -- 3.8 Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4. FABRICATION -- 4.1 Material -- 4.2 Photoresist Techniques -- 4.3 Diffusion -- 4.4 Ohmic Contacts -- 4.5 Scribing and Breaking -- 4.6 Dice Mounting and Wire Bonding -- 4.7 Encapsulation -- CHAPTER 5. LUMINESCENCE AND EXCITATION PROCESSES -- 5.1 Radiative Recombination -- 5.2 Minority Carrier Lifetime -- 5.3 Recombination via Defect Centres -- 5.4 Auger Recombination -- 5.5 BASIC EQUATIONS FOR NON-EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS -- 5.6 Optical Generation -- 5.7 Electrical Injection -- 5.8 p-n Junction -- CHAPTER 6. SOLID-STATE LASERS MADE FROM LED MATERIALS -- 6.1 Criteria for Lasing -- 6.2 Near- and Far-field Patterns -- 6.3 Continuous Operation -- 6.4 Degradation -- CHAPTER 7. MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES -- 7.1 Photoluminescence -- 7.2 Cathodoluminescence -- 7.3 Capacity Measurements -- 7.4 Evaluation of Diode Emission -- CHAPTER 8. LUMINESCENCE OF COMMERCIAL LED MATERIALS -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Impurities and Vacancy-impurity Complexes in Gallium Arsenide -- 8.3 Impurities in Gallium Phosphide -- 8.4 Gallium Arsenide Phosphide Alloys -- CHAPTER 9. LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE SURVEY -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Electrical Characteristics -- 9.3 Optical Characteristics. , 9.4 Gallium Arsenide -- 9.5 Gallium Phosphide -- 9.6 Gallium Arsenide Phosphide -- 9.7 Indium Phosphide -- 9.8 Other III-V Compounds -- 9.9 Other III-V Alloy Systems -- 9.10 Two-photon Phosphor Diodes -- 9.11 Silicon Carbide Diodes -- 9.12 Ternary Chalcopyrite Semiconductors -- 9.13 Conclusion -- CHAPTER 10. APPLICATION OF LED PRODUCTS -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 LED Indicator Lamp -- 10.3 Alpha-numeric Displays -- 10.4 Optically Coupled Devices -- 10.5 Future Prospects -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.

Note: Advances in Jurassic Research 2000 -- Introduction -- Table of Contents -- Timescales and Correlation -- Upper Sinemurian Ammonite Successions Based on 41 Faunal Horizons: An Attempt at Worldwide Correlations -- The Proposed GSSP for the Base of the Sinemurian Stage Near East Quantoxhead/West Somerset (SW England) - the Ammonite Sequence -- The Basal Jurassic Ammonite Succession in the North-West European Province - Review and New Results -- On the proposed Basal Boundary Stratotype (GSSP) of the Middle Jurassic Callovian Stage -- Oxfordian Biostratigraphy from the Lugar Section (External Subbetic, Southern Spain) -- Early to Middle Jurassic Magmatism: New Zircon U-Pb Ages and Comparative Geochemistry from a Crustal Transect through the Bonnanza Arc on Vancouver Island, Canada -- Zone Boundaries and Subzones of the Transversarium Ammonite Zone (Oxfordian, Late Jurassic) in the Reference Section of the Zone, Northern Switzerland -- Aalenian of the Zambujal de Alcaria Section (Central Lusitanian Basin -- Portugal) -- Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy of the Lower - Middle Jurassic Sequences in Eastern Arabia -- Ammonite Biostratigraphy of the Hettangian/Sinemurian Boundary in South America -- A Direct Correlation between North American and Japan-Pacific Radiolarian Zonal Schemes for the Upper Jurassic -- Biostratigraphical Correlations between the Subboreal Mutabilis Zone and the Submediterranean Upper Hypselocyclum - Divisum Zones of the Kimmeridgian: New Data from Northern Poland -- Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy of the Aalenian/Bajocian Auxilary Stratotype Point at Bearreraig, Isle of Skye, NW Scotland -- The Nature of Biostratigraphic Boundaries in the Early Middle Jurassic of South West Germany. , Correlation of Late Bathonian Ammonite Faunas between England and North East Spain and a Proposed Standard Zonation for the Upper Bathonian of Northern and Western Europe -- East Quantoxhead, Somerset: a Candidate Global Stratotype Section and Point for the Base of the Sinemurian Stage (Lower Jurassic) -- A New Marine Triassic-Jurassic Boundary Section in Hungary -- A Revised Numeric Time Scale for the Jurassic -- Upper Jurassic Foraminiferal Zones and Position of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary in Western Siberia -- New Biostratigraphic Data from the Kimmeridgian/Tithonian Boundary Beds of SW Germany -- Immigration of Amoeboceratids into the Submediterranean Upper Jurassic of SW Germany -- The Canadensis Zone (Early Jurassic) in the Shoshone Mountains, Nevada -- The Triassic/Jurassic System Boundary in the Gabbes Formation, Nevada -- Recognition of Potential Palynoevents in the Jurassic Sequence of India and their Correlation in Australia -- Recent Advances in Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) Ammonite Biostratigraphy of North-Central Mexico Based on Recently Collected Ammonite Assemblages -- New Results of the Jurassic Stratigraphic Study in the Nyalam Area of Southern Tibet -- Sequence Stratigraphy -- Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of the Early and Middle Jurasssic Los Patillos Formation, La Ramada Basin (31030,-32030,SL), Argentina -- Sequence Stratigraphy of the Callovian-Berriasian (Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous) of the Iberian Basin (NE Spain) -- Ammonite Taphocycles in Carbonate Epicontinental Platforms -- Definition and Organization of Limestone-Marl Cycles in the Toarcian of the Northern and East-Central Part of the Iberian Subplate (Spain) -- The Distribution of Foraminiferida in the Oxfordian Sequences of North Dorset, U.K. -- Transgressive Sediment Intervals in the Late Jurassic of Kachchh, India. , Discontinuities and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Antalo Limestone (Upper Jurassic, North Ethiopia) -- Geologic Evolution of the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal) during the Late Jurassic -- Jurassic Sequence Stratigraphy of East Greenland -- Paleontology and Biography -- Hispanic Corridor: Its Evolution and the Biogeography of Bivalve Molluscs -- Stratigraphic Distribution of Toarcian Brachiopods from the Iberian Range (Spain) and its Relation to Depositional Sequences -- A Systematic Summary of the Stratigraphic Distribution of Jurassic Rhynchonellide Genera (Brachiopoda) -- New Subcollina (Ammonitida) from the Topmost Lower Bajocian: Their Phylogenetic and Paleogeographic Significance -- Paleoecology and Biostratigraphic Resolution: Review of Jurassic Biostratigraphic Issues in the U.S.Western Interior -- Sedimentary Geology and Paleoenvironments -- Siliceous Sedimentation in the Mediterranean Jurassic Caused by Volcanism, Greenhouse Climate and Eutrophication -- A Jurassic Rift System in the Canadian Arctic Islands -- Lower-Middle Jurassic Rhythmites from the Lombard Basin, Italy: A Record of Orbitally Forced Carbonate Cycles Modulated by Secular Environmental Changes in West Tethys -- Benthic Foraminiferal Response to Pliensbachian - Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) Sea-Level Change and Oceanic Anoxia in NW Europe -- Jurassic Climatic Events of North China and their Geological Significance -- Biological and Physical Agents of Shell Concentrations of Lithiotis Facies Enhanced by Microstratigraphy and Taphonomy, Early Jurassic, Trento Area (Northern Italy) -- Stable Isotopic Signal of Carbon and Oxygen in Jurassic Marlstone-Limestone Rhythms (Italy,Central Apennines) -- Terrestrial Ecosystems -- Early Middle Jurassic Plant Communities in Northwest Scotland: Paleoecological and Paleoclimatic Signficance -- Jurassic Floras of North China. , Constraining Late Jurassic Paleoclimate within the Morrison Paleoecosystem: Insights from the Continental Carbonate Record of the Morrison Formation (Colorado,USA) -- The Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation Determined from a Field Study of Fossil Localities -- Keyword Index.