Editors and practitioners Baca and Ashby, along with their contributors, reason that other professionals and particularly students need to know the theory as well as the practice when dealing with GaAs devices, so they start with the basics, including the material and types of devices in which readers find it and basic semiconductor properties, growth, characterization and processing techniques. They turn to the practical with explanations of cleaning and passivation of GaAs and related alloys, wet etching and photolithography, dry etching, ohmic contacts, Schottky contacts, field effect transistors, heterojunction bipolar transistors, and wet oxidation of metal insulator semiconductor GaAs devices. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)