Hot carriers in semiconductors /

This research and reference text provides up-to-date coverage of the latest research on hot carriers in semiconductors, with a focus on the background, theoretical approaches, measurements and physical understanding required to engage with the field.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ferry, David K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2021]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 21.
IOP ebooks. 2021 collection.
Temas:
Hot carriers.
Semiconductors.
Electronic devices & materials.
Materials.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Some general observations
  • 1.2. Optically excited hot carriers
  • 1.3. Hot carriers in devices
  • 1.4. What is in this book
  • 2. High electric field transport
  • 2.1. Velocity and mobility
  • 2.2. Transient transport
  • 2.3. Inter-valley scattering
  • 2.4. Impact ionization and breakdown
  • 2.5. Microwave studies
  • 2.6. Ballistic devices
  • 2.7. Real-space transfer
  • 3. Carrier heating at low temperature
  • 3.1. Early work
  • 3.2. Phase-breaking
  • 3.3. Energy relaxation time
  • 3.4. Effects in lower dimensions
  • 3.5. Some different systems
  • 3.6. Magnetophonon resonance
  • 4. Optical carrier heating
  • 4.1. Oscillatory photoconductivity
  • 4.2. Free-carrier optics
  • 4.3. Optical absorption
  • 4.4. Ultrafast excitation studies
  • 4.5. Real-space transfer
  • 5. Nonequilibrium phonons
  • 5.1. The nature of the problem
  • 5.2. Acoustic spectroscopy
  • 5.3. Measuring the nonequilibrium phonons
  • 5.4. Rise and fall of the phonons
  • 5.5. Measuring the lifetime
  • 6. Seeking the distribution function
  • 6.1. The relaxation time approximation
  • 6.2. Expanding in Legendre polynomials
  • 6.3. The drifted Maxwellian distribution
  • 6.4. The energy diffusion equations
  • 6.5. Low-dimensional systems
  • 6.6. Plasmon interactions
  • 7. The ensemble Monte Carlo method
  • 7.1. The path integral
  • 7.2. The Monte Carlo process
  • 7.3. Building a code
  • 7.4. Molecular dynamics and Poisson
  • 7.5. Real-space transfer
  • 7.6. Full band Monte Carlo
  • 7.7. Monte Carlo in device simulation
  • 8. Quantum transport
  • 8.1. Modes and the Landauer formula
  • 8.2. Transport with the Schrödinger equation
  • 8.3. The density matrix
  • 8.4. Nonequilibrium Green's functions
  • 8.5. Wigner functions
  • 8.6. Some final comments.

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