chapter 1 Importance and Research Program of Electric Refractory Materials / chapter 2 Survey of Refractory Metalloids: Transition Metal Carbides, Nitrides, and Diborides / chapter 3 Bulk Crystal Growth / chapter 4 Thin-Film Preparation / chapter 5 Electronic Structure / chapter 6 Lattice Vibrations, Heat Capacity, and Related Properties / chapter 7 Electrical and Thermal Conductivity and Related Transport Properties at Low Temperatures / chapter 8 High-Temperature Characteristics / chapter 9 Surface Electronic Structures and Surface Reactivities / chapter 10 Irradiation Properties of Electric Refractory Materials / chapter 11 Transition Metal Carbide Field Emitters / chapter 12 NbN Superconducting Devices / chapter 13 Solar Absorbers�Selective Surfaces / chapter 14 Metalloids for Plasma-Facing Materials / chapter 15 Synthesis of Diamond from the Gas Phase / chapter 16 The Electrical and Optical Properties of Diamond / chapter 17 Semiconducting Diamond and Diamond Devices / chapter 18 SiC Boule Growth / chapter 19 Epitaxial Growth, Characterization, and Properties of SiC / chapter 20 Silicon Carbide Power Electronic Devices / chapter 21 Science and Technology of Boron Nitride / chapter 22 Boron Phosphide / chapter 23 Boron and Boron-Rich Compounds / chapter 24 Boron Films / chapter 25 Single Crystal of AlN / chapter 26 AlN Sintered Polycrystal / chapter 27 GaN-AlN-InN Blue Light�Emitting Devices