Materials Reviews

	For the materials review, you should choose a material, or a 
class of materials, and describe the features which characterize and 
distinguish this material or class of materials.  This is to be done
in six pages, excluding the titlepage and references, but including 
figures, using the Latex template Mat\_review.tex available on this 
site (since LaTeX is the official typesetting language of the APS, 
this language MUST be used.  You must register your topic for this 
paper in writing (by email to user jarrell) BEFORE the end of the 
sixth week of the quarter.

	The files GaAs_GT.ps and GaAs_SL.ps are samples of materials
reviews (both are excellent) for Galium Arsinide handed in by Gary 
Troha and Sue Lindsay in 1994.  Note that although they are on the 
same subject, they are quite different (indicating the degree of 
freedom allowed in this project).  Also note that although each author 
was limited to 6 pages of text and figures, they cover all of the 
basic ideas:  What is GaAs?  Why is it special? Why should I care?  
Where can I learn more (references)?

	FIGURES:  Figures can be embedded in the LaTeX document using 
psfig (as well as several other programs).  Examples of the use of 
psfig are in Mat_review.tex.  If you use scanned figures, BE SURE THAT 
YOU SCAN YOUR FIGURES WITH 300 DPI RESOLUTION (DO NOT USE COLOR).  If 
you use screen resolution, the printed figures are generally unreadable.  
If you use higher than 300 dpi resulution, then the figure files are 
too big, and will exceed your quota.

	Please hand in your assignment in both hard copy (one to each
of your colleagues in class and one to me) and soft copy form (the 
latter should include both the postscript figures and the LaTex file).