Semiconductor Physics
Subtitle: An Introduction
By: by Karlheinz Seeger
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Published: 1999
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9783662037973
Subjects: Materials science; Thin Films Surfaces and Interfaces; Surfaces (Physics); Optical materials; Instrumentation Electronics and Microelectronics; Electronics; Optical and Electronic Materials
Description: Semiconductor Physics - An Introduction - is suitable for the senior undergraduate or new graduate student majoring in electrical engineering or physics. It will also be useful to solid-state scientists and device engineers involved in semiconductor design and technology. The text provides a lucid account of charge transport, energy transport and optical processes, and a detailed description of many devices. It includes sections on superlattices and quantum well structures, the effects of deep-level impurities on transport, the quantum Hall effect and the calculation of the influence of a magnetic field on the carrier distribution function. This 6th edition has been revised and corrected, and new sections have been added to different chapters.
Table of contents: title: 1. Elementary Properties of Semiconductors; title: 2. Energy Band Structure; title: 3. Semiconductor Statistics; title: 4. Charge and Energy Transport in a Nondegenerate Electron Gas; title: 5. Carrier Diffusion Processes; title: 6. Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model; title: 7. Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model; title: 8. Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model; title: 9. Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena; title: 10. Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown; title: 11. Optical Absorption and Reflection; title: 12. Photoconductivity.; title: 13. Light Generation by Semiconductors; title: 4. Surface and Interface Properties and the Quantum Hall Effect; title: 15. Miscellaneous Semiconductors; title: A. Physical Constants; title: References.