Semiconductor physics : principles, theory and nanoscale

"Principles, theory and nanoscale covers the central topics of the field, together with advanced topics related to the nanoscale and to quantum confinement, and integrates the understanding of important attributes that go beyond the conventional solid-state and statistical expositions. Topics i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Tiwari, Sandip, 1955- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
SeriesElectroscience series ; v. 3.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780191078033
0191078034
9780198759867
019875986X
Physical Description1 online resource (xxvii, 803 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Hamiltonians and solution techniques
  • Entropy, information and energy
  • Waves and particles in the crystal
  • Bandstructures
  • Semiconductor surfaces
  • Semiconductor interfaces and junctions
  • Point perturbations
  • Transport and evolution of classical and quantum ensembles
  • Scattering-constrained dynamics
  • Major scattering processes
  • Particle generation and recombination
  • Light interactions with semiconductors
  • Causality and Green's functions
  • Quantum to macroscale and linear response
  • Onsager relationships
  • Noise
  • Stress and strain effects
  • High permittivity dielectrics
  • Remote processes
  • Quantum confinement and monolayer semiconductors
  • Appendices. Integral transform theorems
  • Various useful functions
  • Random processes
  • Calculus of variation, and the Lagrangian method
  • A thermodynamics primer
  • Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution function
  • Spin and spin matrices
  • Density of states
  • Oscillator strength
  • Effective mass tensor
  • A and B coefficients, and spontaneous and stimulated emission
  • Helmholtz theorem and vector splitting
  • Mode coupling and Purcell effect
  • Vector and scalar potentials
  • Analyticity, Kramers-Kronig and Hilbert transforms
  • Particle velocities.