Excitons in Low-Dimensional Semiconductors
Subtitle: Theory Numerical Methods Applications
By: by Stephan Glutsch
Series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences -- 141; Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences -- 141
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9783642057816; 9783662071502
Subjects: Quantum theory; Nanotechnology; Optical materials
Description: Low-dimensional semiconductors have become a vital part of today's semiconductor physics, and excitons in these systems are ideal objects that bring textbook quantum mechanics to life. Furthermore, their theoretical understanding is important for experiments and optoelectronic devices. The author develops the effective-mass theory of excitons in low-dimensional semiconductors and describes numerical methods for calculating the optical absorption including Coulomb interaction, geometry, and external fields. The theory is applied to Fano resonances in low-dimensional semiconductors and the Zener breakdown in superlattices. Comparing theoretical results with experiments, the book is essentially self-contained; it is a hands-on approach with detailed derivations, worked examples, illustrative figures, and computer programs. The book is clearly structured and will be valuable as an advanced-level self-study or course book for graduate students, lecturers, and researchers.
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Table of contents: title: Optical Transitions in Semiconductors; title: Numerical Calculation of the Optical Absorption in Low-Dimensional Semiconductors; title: Fano Resonances in the Optical Absorption of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors; title: Zener Breakdown in Superlattices. Appendices: Mathematical Supplement, Physical Supplement, Essentials of Quantum Mechanics, Computer Programs.