Semiconductor physics : an introduction /
This well-established monograph, updated and now in its eighth edition, deals mainly with electron transport in, and optical properties of semiconductors, and includes a treatment of lasers and many other quantum processes. The book is aimed primarily at students of experimental solid-state physics,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[2002]
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| Edition: | Eighth edition. |
| Series: | Advanced texts in physics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Elementary properties of semiconductors
- Energy band structure
- Semiconductor statistics
- Charge and energy transport in a nondegenerate electron gas
- Carrier diffusion processes
- Scattering processes in a spherical one-valley model
- Charge transport and scattering processes in the many-valley model
- Carrier transport in the warped-sphere model
- Quantum effects in transport phenomena
- Impact ionization and avalanche breakdown
- Optical absorption and reflection
- Photoconductivity
- Light generation by semiconductors
- Surface and interface properties and the quantum hall effect
- Miscellaneous semiconductors.