Effective Electron Mass in Low-Dimensional Semiconductors
By: by Sitangshu Bhattacharya, Kamakhya Prasad Ghatak
Contributors: Ghatak, Kamakhya Prasad; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Springer Series in Materials Science -- 167
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9783642312489
Subjects: Building materials; Quantum optics; RF and Optical Engineering Microwaves; Microwaves; Optical and Electronic Materials; Optical materials; Solid state physics; Materials; Nanoscale Science and Technology; Physics
Description: This book deals with the Effective Electron Mass (EEM) in low dimensional semiconductors. The materials considered are quantum confined non-linear optical, III-V, II-VI, GaP, Ge, PtSb2, zero-gap, stressed, Bismuth, carbon nanotubes, GaSb, IV-VI, Te, II-V, Bi2Te3, Sb, III-V, II-VI, IV-VI semiconductors and quantized III-V, II-VI, IV-VI and HgTe/CdTe superlattices with graded interfaces and effective mass superlattices. The presence of intense electric field and the light waves change the band structure of optoelectronic semiconductors in fundamental ways, which have also been incorporated in the study of the EEM in quantized structures of optoelectronic compounds that control the studies of the quantum effect devices under strong fields. The importance of measurement of band gap in optoelectronic materials under strong electric field and external photo excitation has also been discussed in this context. The influence of crossed electric and quantizing magnetic fields on the EEM and the EEM in heavily doped semiconductors and their nanostructures is discussed. This book contains 200 open research problems which form the integral part of the text and are useful for both Ph. D aspirants and researchers in the fields of solid-state sciences, materials science, nanoscience and technology and allied fields in addition to the graduate courses in modern semiconductor nanostructures. <br>The book is written for post graduate students, researchers and engineers, professionals in the fields of solid state sciences, materials science, nanoscience and technology, nanostructured materials and condensed matter physics.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Influence of Light Waves on the Effective Electron Mass (EEM) in Optoelectronic Semiconductors; title: Part II: Influence of Quantum Confinement on the EEM in Non-Parabolic Semiconductors; title: Part III: The EEM in Quantum Confined Superlattices of Non- Parabolic Semiconductors; title: Part IV: Influence of Intense Electric Field on the EEM in Optoelectronic Semiconductors.