Semiconductor Physics
An Introduction
5th Edition
Published on 17. April 2013
XIV, 504 pages
978-3-662-02663-2 (ISBN)
Description
This textbook, suitable for senior undergraduates or new graduate students majoring in electrical engineering or physics, provides a lucid account of charge transport, energy transport and optical process in semiconductors and a detailed description of many devices. The exercises will greatly assist the student in consolidating the material presented.
Reviews / Votes
FROM THE REVIEWS:
PHYSICALIA
"This book is a must for any theoretical and experimental physicist working in the area of semiconductor physics."
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ANGEWANDTE MATHEMATIK UND PHYSIK
"The book can be recommended for the design of numerical mobility-, recombination- and generation models for the numerical simulation of semiconductor devices."
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Series
Edition
Fifth Edition 1991
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Illustrations
XIV, 504 p.
File size
41,07 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-662-02663-2 (9783662026632)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-02663-2
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Content
1. Elementary Properties of Semiconductors.- 2. Energy Band Structure.- 3. Semiconductor Statistics.- 4. Charge and Energy Transport in a Nondegenerate Electron Gas.- 5. Carrier Diffusion Processes.- 6. Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model.- 7. Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model.- 8. Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model.- 9. Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena.- 10. Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown.- 11. Optical Absorption and Reflection.- 12. Photoconductivity.- 13. Light Generation by Semiconductors.- 14. Properties of the Surface.- 15. Miscellaneous Semiconductors.- Appendices.- References.
