Semiconductor Physics
Subtitle: An Introduction
By: by Karlheinz Seeger
Edition: Fourth Edition.
Series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences -- 40; Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences -- 40
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9783540194101; 9783662025765
Subjects: Engineering; Physics; Optical materials
Description: Televisions, telephones, watches, calculators, robots, airplanes and space vehicles all depend on silicon chips. Life as we know it would hardly be possible without semiconductor devices. An understanding of how these devices work requires a detailed knowledge of the physics of semiconductors, including charge transport and the emission and absorption of electromagnetic waves. This book may serve both as a university textbook and as a reference for research and microelectronics engineering. Each section of the book begins with a description of an experiment. The theory is then developed as far as necessary to understand the experimental results. Everyone with high-school mathematics should be able to follow the calculations. A band structure calculation for the diamond lattice is supplemented with a personal computer program. Semiconductor physics developed most rapidly in the two decades following the invention of the transistor, and naturally most of the references date from this time. But recent developments such as the Gunn effect, the acoustoelectric effect, superlattices, quantum well structures, and the integral and fractional quantum Hall effect are also discussed. The book has appeared in translation in Russian, Chinese and Japanese.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: Elementary Properties of Semiconductors; title: Energy Band Structure; title: Semiconductor Statistics; title: Charge and Energy Transport in a Nondegenerate Electron Gas; title: Carrier Diffusion Processes; title: Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model; title: Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model; title: Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model; title: Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena; title: Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown; title: Optical Absorption and Reflection; title: Photoconductivity; title: Light Generation by Semiconductors; title: Properties of the Surface; title: Miscellaneous Semiconductors; title: Appendices; title: References; title: Subject Index.