Electronic and Optoelectronic Properties of Semiconductor Structures

An introduction, for graduate students, to the underlying physics behind devices that drive today's technologies.

Jasprit Singh (Author)

9780521035743, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 March 2007

560 pages, 30 tables 199 exercises
24.3 x 16.3 x 2.8 cm, 0.876 kg

'Professor Singh has produced another excellent volume that will be a valuable source for both new entrants and the established in the field of optoelectronic semiconductor structures.' IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine

A graduate textbook presenting the underlying physics behind devices that drive today's technologies. The book covers important details of structural properties, bandstructure, transport, optical and magnetic properties of semiconductor structures. Effects of low-dimensional physics and strain - two important driving forces in modern device technology - are also discussed. In addition to conventional semiconductor physics the book discusses self-assembled structures, mesoscopic structures and the developing field of spintronics. The book utilizes carefully chosen solved examples to convey important concepts and has over 250 figures and 200 homework exercises. Real-world applications are highlighted throughout the book, stressing the links between physical principles and actual devices. Electronic and Optoelectronic Properties of Semiconductor Structures provides engineering and physics students and practitioners with complete and coherent coverage of key modern semiconductor concepts. A solutions manual and set of viewgraphs for use in lectures are available for instructors, from solutions@cambridge.org.

Preface
Introduction
1. Structural properties of semiconductors
2. Semiconductor bandstructure
3. Bandstructure modifications
4. Transport: general formalism
5. Defect and carrier-carrier scattering
6. Lattice vibrations: phonon scattering
7. Velocity-field relations in semiconductors
8. Coherence, disorder and mesoscopic systems
9. Optical properties of semiconductors
10. Excitonic effects and modulation of optical properties
11. Semiconductors in magnetic fields
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Applied optics [TTB], Electronic devices & materials [TJFD], Electronics engineering [TJF], Optical physics [PHJ]