This eighth volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes nearly 700 abstracts of papers which appeared between the publication of Annual Retrospective VII (Volumes 233-234) and the end of November 2005 (allowing for vagaries of journal availability).

This eighth volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes abstracts of papers which appeared between the publication of Annual Retrospective VII (Volumes 230-232) and the end of 2005 (allowing for vagaries of journal availability).

This proceedings volume contains 126 contributions from the 11th international meeting on Gettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Technology GADEST 2005 held at “La Badine” at the Giens peninsula south of France.

This seventh volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes abstracts of papers which appeared between the publication of Annual Retrospective VI (Volumes 226-228) and the end of July 2005 (journal availability permitting).

This collection of abstracts of experimental and theoretical papers on the subject of diffusion in silicon is intended to complement earlier volumes (DDF153-155) which covered the previous decade’s work on the same topic.

These volumes contain the contributions presented at DIMAT 2004: the Sixth International Conference on Diffusion in Materials, held in Cracow, under the Patronage of the AGH University of Science and Technology, the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Cracow University of Technology.

Silicon Carbide (SiC), Gallium Nitride (GaN) and Diamond are examples of wide-bandgap semiconductors having chemical, electrical and optical properties which make them very attractive for the fabrication of high-power and high-frequency electronic devices, as well as of light-emitters and sensors which have to operate under harsh conditions.

This seventh volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes abstracts of papers which appeared between the publication of Annual Retrospective VI (Volumes 224-225) and the end of November 2004 (allowing for vagaries of journal availability).

This seventh volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes abstracts of papers which appeared between the publication of Annual Retrospective VI (Volumes 221-223) and the end of September 2004 (allowing for vagaries of journal availability).

This seven-year retrospective covers the significant results, reported in these fields during that time, and includes abstracts of papers which appeared after the publication of Defect and Diffusion Forum, Volumes 150-151 and Volumes 181-182, (which were last to cover these topics systematically) and the end of August 2004 (allowing for vagaries of journal availability).