Publisher's Synopsis
<i>Physica status solidi © – conferences and critical reviews</i> publishes conference proceedings, ranging from large international meetings to specialize topical workshops as well as collections of topical reviews on various areas of current solid state physics research. <p> This special issue contains a series of Review Articles on several aspects of epitaxy, materials science, and applications of group–III nitride films and heterostructures, written by participants of the Priority Programme (SPP) 1032 of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Main topics included are deposition and structure, electronic and optical properties as well as devices and device issues. <p>
