Download or read book Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials written by G. Eric Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a comprehensive international forum on defect-related phenomena in wide-gap materials, crystalline or otherwise. Materials as diverse as SiO2, group-III nitride compounds, diamond, alkali halides, refractory oxides, and polymers are covered, and the defects considered include intrinsic point imperfections, dislocations, accidental impurities, intentional dopants, imperfect surfaces, nanocrystals in host matrices, and bonding defects in glasses.