Book excerpt: Compound Semiconductors 1994 provides a comprehensive overview of research and applications of gallium arsenide, indium phosphide, silicon carbide, and other compound semiconducting materials. Contributed by leading experts, the book discusses growth, characterization, processing techniques, device applications, high-power, high-temperature semiconductor devices, visible emitters and optoelectronic integrated circuits (OEICs), heterojunction transistors, nanoelectronics, and nanophotonics, and simulation and modeling. The book is an essential reference for researchers working on the fabrication of semiconductors, characterization of materials, and their applications for devices, such as lasers, photodiodes, sensors, and transistors, particularly in the high-speed telecommunications industries.