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Semiconductors : bonds and bands /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferry, David K. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2013]
Series:IOP expanding physics.
Subjects:
Semiconductors.
Solid state physics.
Semi-conductors & super-conductors.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / Semiconductors.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Carrier transport
  • The Boltzmann transport equation
  • The effect of spin on transport
  • The ensemble Monte Carlo technique.
  • The electron-phonon interaction
  • The basic interaction
  • Acoustic deformation potential scattering
  • Piezoelectric scattering
  • Optical and intervalley scattering
  • Polar optical phonon scattering
  • Other scattering processes
  • Preface
  • Author biography
  • Introduction
  • What is included in device modeling?
  • What is in this book?
  • Electronic structure
  • Periodic potentials
  • Potentials and pseudopotentials
  • Real-space methods
  • Momentum space methods
  • The k.p method
  • The effective mass approximation
  • Semiconductor alloys
  • Lattice dynamics
  • Lattice waves and phonons
  • Waves in deformable solids
  • Lattice contribution to the dielectric function
  • Models for calculating phonon dynamics
  • Anharmonic forces and the phonon lifetime