Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-412) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Growth and structure of amorphous silicon -- 3. The electronic density of states -- 4. Defects and their electronic states -- 5. Substitutional doping -- 6. Defect reactions, thermal equilibrium and metastability -- 7. Electronic transport -- 8. Recombination of excess carriers -- 9. Contacts, interfaces and multilayers -- 10. Amorphous silicon device technology.