Band Structure of Semiconductors

IntroductionChapter 1. Methods of Calculating Band Structure 1.1 General Discussion 1.2 The LCAO Method (Tight-binding) 1.3 The Augmented Plane Wave (APW) Method and the Green's Function (KKR) Method 1.4 The Orthogonalized Plane Wave (OPW) Method and the Pseudopptential Method 1.5 The k.p MethodChapter 2. Band Structure of Important Semiconductors 2.1 Semiconductors with Diamond Structure 2.2 Semiconductors with Zinc Blende Structure 2.3 Gapless Semiconductors 2.4 Lead Chalcogenides 2.5 Tellurium and SeleniumChapter 3. Electron in a Perturbed Periodic Field 3.1 Effective Mass Approximation 3.2 Quasi-classical Dynamics 3.3 Dynamics of an Electron with an Arbitrary Dispersion Relation 3.4 Dynamic Properties of Electrons and HolesChapter 4. Effective Masses for Actual Band Structures 4.1 Parabolic Anisotropic Band (Ellipsoidal Constant Energy Surfaces) 4.2 Parabolic Anisotropic Band (Warped Constant Energy Surfaces) 4.3 Non-parabolic Isotropic Band 4.4 Band Parameters for Zinc Blende Structure Considering Perturbation Due to Remote BandsChapter 5. Experimental Methods of Investigating Band Structure 5.1 Cyclotron Resonance 5.2 Transport Phenomena 5.3 Oscillatory Phenomena 5.4 Optical Phenomena 5.5 Magneto-optical PhenomenaReferencesIndex