Carrier scattering in metals and semiconductors /

The transport properties of solids, as well as the many optical phenomena in them are determined by the scattering of current carriers. ``Carrier Scattering in Metals and Semiconductors'' elucidates the state of the art in the research on the scattering mechanisms for current carriers in m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gantmakher, V. F.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Levinson, I. B. (Ioshua Benʹi︠a︡minovich)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translation of: Rasseianye nositeleĭ toka v metallakh i poluprovodnikakh.
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : New York, NY, USA : North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the USA and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1987.
Series:Modern problems in condensed matter sciences ; v. 19.
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Table of Contents:
  • QUASI-PARTICLES IN AN IDEAL CRYSTAL: Band structure
  • Quasi-particles
  • Band structure of cubic semiconductors at the center of the Brillouin zone
  • SCATTERING: Scattering mechanisms
  • Transition probability and the principle of detailed balance
  • Scattering cross section
  • Relaxation and fluctuation characteristics of a test particle
  • The relaxation time approximation. The Boltzmann integral as a current in k-space
  • The method of correlators
  • ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTION: Matrix element of a one-phonon process
  • The macrofield and microfield as two causes of scattering
  • Screening
  • Deformation potential
  • Macrofields
  • Matrix elements for scattering by long-wavelength phonons
  • Scattering by phonons in the pseudopotential method
  • SCATTERING BY LONG-WAVELENGTH PHONONS IN A SIMPLE BAND: Matrix elements
  • Kinematics of scattering
  • Relaxation times in a Boltzmann gas
  • Relaxation times in a Fermi gas
  • Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for quasi-elastic scattering
  • SCATTERING BY PHONONS IN AN ANISOTROPIC ELECTRON BAND: Deformation potential scattering in an ellipsoidal valley
  • Intervalley scattering
  • Intervalley scattering experiments
  • Diffusion on the Fermi surface
  • ELECTRON-ELECTRON SCATTERING AND THE ELECTRON TEMPERATURE: Probability of electron-electron scattering
  • Characteristics of test electron scattering by an electron gas
  • Effect of electron-electron scattering on the distribution function
  • Electron temperature relaxation
  • Effect of electron-electron scattering on the oscillating photoresponse
  • Electron temperature relaxation time measurement
  • RELAXATION CHARACTERISTICS OF KINETIC EFFECTS: Distribution function perturbation in various types of experiments
  • Averaging over energies
  • Mobility in semiconductors
  • Umklapp collisions
  • Relaxation upon mutual scattering of various types of carriers
  • Temperature dependences of kinetic effects in metals and semimetals
  • TWO-PHONON PROCESSES: Probabilities of two-phonon transitions
  • Real and virtual transitions. Compound scattering
  • Interaction with short-wavelength phonons
  • SCATTERING BY IMPURITIES: Neutral impurities in semiconductors
  • Charged impurities in semiconductors
  • Partial phase shifts in metals
  • Resonant scattering by virtual d-levels
  • SCATTERING BY DISLOCATIONS: Scattering diameter
  • Experimental investigations
  • SCATTERING BY A CRYSTAL SURF ACE: Coherent scattering
  • Observation of coherent scattering
  • Incoherent scattering
  • SCATTERING IN A DEGENERATE BAND AND IN A MULTIBAND MODEL: Matrix elements for quasi-particle scattering by phonons
  • Overlap factors
  • The isotropic model for hole scattering by phonons in a degenerate band
  • Cyclotron resonance of hot holes in germanium
  • Scattering by the deformation potential of acoustic phonons in the multiband model
  • Interband transitions with LO-phonon emission
  • Electron scattering by holes
  • Scattering by ionized impurities
  • SPIN-FLIP INDUCED BY SPIN-ORBIT INTERACTION: Spin-flip time
  • Scattering by nonmagnetic impurities
  • Scattering by phonons
  • Precession mechanism of spin relaxation
  • Spin relaxation in metals - experimental data
  • Spin relaxation in semiconductors - experimental data
  • Spin-flip at a surface
  • THE EFFECT OF A MAGNETIC FIELD ON SCATTERING: States in a magnetic field and the description of scattering
  • The effect of Larmor motion on relaxation
  • Scattering by acoustic phonons in an ultraquantum field-Boltzmann gas
  • Scattering by phonons in a quantized Fermi gas
  • Resonance inelastic scattering
  • Static imperfections
  • Electron-electron scattering in the ultraquantum limit
  • Spin-flip is a quantizing magnetic field - Kane model
  • EXCHANGE AND SPIN INTERACTION: Interaction between a conduction electron and a magnetic atom
  • Scattering by a spin lattice
  • Magnetic impurities
  • Skew scattering
  • Electron spin relaxation in exchange interaction with holes.