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Plasma and current instabilities in semiconductors /
Plasma and Current Instabilities in Semiconductors details the main ideas in the physics of plasma and current instabilities in semiconductors. The title first covers plasma in semiconductors, and then proceeds to tackling waves in plasma. Next, the selection details wave instabilities in plasma and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Ruso |
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Oxford ; New York :
Pergamon,
1981.
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| Colección: | International series on the science of the solid state ;
v. 18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Plasma and Current Instabilities in Semiconductors; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of Main Symbols; CHAPTER 1. PLASMA IN SEMICONDUCTORS; 1. Main Definitions; 2. The Dispersion Equation; 3. Drift Currents of Charged Particles and Electric Conductivity of a Semiconductor in Electric and Magnetic Fields; 4. The Boltzmann Kinetic Equation; 5. The Effective Mass and the Band Structure; 6. Scattering Mechanisms and Relaxation Times; CHAPTER 2. WAVES IN PLASMA; 1. Waves in a Cold Plasma in the Absence of Magnetic Field.
- 2. Waves in a Single-Component Plasma Placed in Magnetic Field3. The Multi-Component Plasma. Magnetohydrodynamic and Magnetosonic Waves; 4. The Effect on Waves of Thermal Motion of Particles. Electrosonic Waves. Landau Attenuation; 5. Helicon Waves in Metals; 6. Waves in a Semiconductor with Anisotropie Valleys; 7. Experimental Observation of Magnetoplasma Waves in Semiconductors; 8. Helicon Spectroscopy; CHAPTER 3. WAVE INSTABILITIES IN PLASMA; 1. Criteria of Instability; 2. Practical Methods of Determining Instability Criteria; 3. The Negative Differential Conductivity.
- 4. Energy Transfer to Waves in PlasmaCHAPTER 4. DRIFT INSTABILITIES; 1. The Interaction of the Charge Carrier Flux and Waves in the Plasma with the Acoustical Waves in the Lattice; 2. Interaction of the Drift Current of Charge Carriers with Waves in an Unbounded Plasma; 3. Interaction of Streams of Charge Carriers and Waves in a Bounded Plasma; CHAPTER 5. HOT ELECTRONS; 1. The Mean Energy and the Drift Velocity of Hot Electrons. Thermal Instability; 2. The Energy Distribution Function of Hot Electrons; 3. Heating of Electrons in Many-Valley Semiconductors of the Type AIII BV and AII BVI.
- 4. The Heating of Electrons in Germanium and Silicon5. The Monte Carlo Method; CHAPTER 6. INSTABILITIES DUE TO INTER-VALLEY ELECTRON TRANSFER; 1. Electric Domains. Gunn Effect; 2. Operation Modes of Diodes with Negative Bulk Conductivity; 3. Absolute Negative Resistance; CHAPTER 7. AVALANCHE INSTABILITIES; 1. Avalanche Instability; 2. Mechanisms of Charge Carrier Generation by the Electric Field; 3. Avalanche Structures; CHAPTER 8. RECOMBINATION INSTABILITIES; 1. Recombination of Hot Electrons; 2. Recombination Waves; 3. Injection Instabilities; CHAPTER 9. PLASMA STREAMS.
- 1. Plasma Streams through a Semiconductor with Variable Cross-section2. Pinch-effect; 3. Kink and Gradient Instabilities; Appendix; References; Index.