Semiconductor Physics

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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.
• Appendix: Physical Constants.
• References.