Entries on the microchip, injection laser, graphic equalizer, compact disc, digital recording and DAT are all included in this dictionary. Coverage is given to solid-state devices and circuits, semiconductors and semiconductor technology - TEGFET, TED, microfaceting, lapping, mesa, via - and to new analytical techniques, including electron microprobe, photoelectron spectroscopy, LEED and SXAPS.
Valerie Illingworth worked as a reference book publisher before becoming a freelance editor in 1976. She is the editor of the Collins Dictionary of Astronomy and the Oxford Dictionary of Computing.