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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seeger, Karlheinz (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2002]
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.