This invaluable textbook presents the basic elements needed to understand and research into semiconductor physics. It deals with elementary excitations in bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors, including quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots. The basic principles underlying optical nonlinearities are developed, including excitonic and many-body plasma effects. Fundamentals of optical bistability, semiconductor lasers, femtosecond excitation, the optical Stark effect, the semiconductor photon echo, magneto-optic effects, as well as bulk and quantum-confined Franz-Keldysh effects, are covered. The material is presented in sufficient detail for graduate students and researchers with a general background in quantum mechanics.
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978-981-238-756-1 (9789812387561)
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Philipps-univ Marburg, Germany
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-univ, Germany
Oscillator Model; Atoms in a Classical Light Field; Periodic Lattice of Atoms; Mesoscopic Semiconductor Structures; Free Carrier Transitions; Ideal Quantum Gases; Interacting Electron Gas; Plasmons and Plasma Screening; Retarded Green's Function for Electrons; Excitons; Polaritons; Semiconductor Bloch Equations; Excitonic Stark Effect; Wave-Mixing Spectroscopy; Optical Properties of a Quasi-Equilibrium Electron-Hole Plasma; Optical Bistability.
