Cover Image

Semiconductor Physics : an Introduction /

Show other versions (14)

This well-established monograph, updated and now in its ninth edition, deals mainly with electron transport in, and optical properties of semiconductors. It includes lasers, e.g. the quantum cascade laser, quantum processes such as the quantum Hall effect, quantum dots, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seeger, Karlheinz
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
Edition:Ninth edition.
Series:Advanced texts in physics.
Subjects:
Engineering.
Electronics.
Optical materials.
Surfaces (Physics)
Electronic books.
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.