1. General Properties of Nitrides -- 2. Electronic Band Structure and Polarization Effects -- 3. Growth and Growth Methods of Nitride Semiconductors -- 4. Extended Defects, Point Defects, Doping Including Transition Metals, and Role of Hydrogen -- 5. Metal Contacts to GaN and Processing -- 6. Determination of Impurity and Carrier Concentrations -- 7. Carrier Transport -- 8. The p--n Junction -- 9. Optical Processes in Semiconductors and Optical Properties of Nitride Semiconductors and Heterostructures -- 10. Light Emitting Diodes and Lighting -- 11. Semiconductor Lasers -- 12. Field Effect Transistors and Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors -- 13. Ultraviolet Detectors.