Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Semiconductors
Subtitle: Self-Organization Induced by Generation and Recombination Processes
By: by Eckehard Schöll
Series: Springer Series in Synergetics -- 35; Springer series in synergetics -- 35.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9783642719295; 9783642719271
Subjects: Physics
Description: Semiconductors can exhibit electrical instabilities like current runaway, threshold switching, current filamentation, or oscillations, when they are driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium. This book presents a coherent theoretical des- cription of such cooperative phenomena induced by generation and recombination processes of charge carriers in semicon- ductors.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Bistability of Homogeneous Steady States; title: Small Fluctuations from the Homogeneous Steady State; title: Stationary Transverse Spatial Structures; title: Stability of Transverse Spatial Structures; title: Self-Sustained Oscillations and Chaos; title: References; title: Subject Index.