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Semiconductors : bonds and bands /

This second edition discusses the importance of semiconductors along with their newest applications. The book introduces the ever-changing field of semiconductors, before covering chapters on electronic structure, lattice dynamics, transport structures, optical properties and electron-electron inter...

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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, [2020]
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:IOP ebooks. 2020 collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Multi-scale modeling in semiconductors
  • 1.2. Building a planar MOSFET
  • 1.3. Modern modifications
  • 1.4. What is in this book?
  • 2. Electronic structure
  • 2.1. Periodic potentials
  • 2.2. Potentials and pseudopotentials
  • 2.3. Real-space methods
  • 2.4. Momentum space methods
  • 2.5. The k [dot] p method
  • 2.6. The effective mass approximation
  • 2.7. Dielectric scaling theory
  • 2.8. Semiconductor alloys
  • 2.9. Hetero-structures
  • 2.10. Surfaces
  • 2.11. Some nanostructures
  • 3. Lattice dynamics
  • 3.1. Lattice waves and phonons
  • 3.2. Waves in deformable solids
  • 3.3. Models for calculating phonon dynamics
  • 3.4. Lattice contributions to the dielectric function
  • 3.5. Alloy complications
  • 3.6. Anharmoic forces and the phonon lifetime
  • 4. Semiconductor statistics
  • 4.1. Electron density and the Fermi level
  • 4.2. Deep levels
  • 4.3. Disorder and localization
  • 5. Carrier scattering
  • 5.1. The electron-phonon interaction
  • 5.2. Acoustic deformation potential scattering
  • 5.3. Piezoelectric scattering
  • 5.4. Optical and intervalley scattering
  • 5.5. Polar optical phonon scattering
  • 5.6. Other scattering mechanisms
  • 6. Carrier transport
  • 6.1. The Boltzmann transport equation
  • 6.2. Rode's iterative approach
  • 6.3. The effect of spin on transport
  • 7. High field transport
  • 7.1. Physical observables
  • 7.2. The ensemble Monte Carlo technique
  • 8. Optical properties
  • 8.1. Free-carrier absorption
  • 8.2. Direct transitions
  • 8.3. Indirect transitions
  • 8.4. Recombination
  • 9. The electron-electron interaction
  • 9.1. The dielectric function
  • 9.2. Screening in low-dimensional materials
  • 9.3. Free-particle interelectronic scattering
  • 9.4. Electron-plasmon scattering
  • 9.5. Molecular dynamics .