[内容简介]
This well-established monograph, updated and now in its ninth edition, deals mainly with electron transport in, and optical properties of semiconductors. It includes lasers, e.g. the quantum cascade laser, quantum processes such as the quantum Hall effect, quantum dots, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, molecular electronics, the nitrides, and many other recent discoveries in the field. New diagrams and tables provide a comprehensive source of materials data. Selected problems help readers to consolidate their knowledge and invite teachers to use this text for graduate courses on semiconductor physics, solid state physics, and physical electronics.
[目次]
Elementary Properties of Semiconductors
* Energy Band Structure * Semiconductor Statistics
* Charge and Energy Transport in a Nondegenerate Electron Gas
* Carrier Diffusion Processes
* Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model
* Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model
* Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model
* Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena
* Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown
* Optical Absorption and Reflection
* Photoconductivity * Light Generation by Semiconductors
* Surface and Interface Properties and the Quantum Hall Effect
* Miscellaneous Semiconductors.