Physics of Electronic Materials
Principles and Applications

A comprehensive textbook explaining the physics of electronic materials and describing numerous practical applications of electronic devices.

Jørgen Rammer (Author)

9781107084940, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 March 2017

450 pages, 276 b/w illus.
25.3 x 19.3 x 2.5 cm, 1.15 kg

'Although the book is designed for senior undergraduate students in physics and engineering, anyone interested in operation of electronic devices will find it enjoyable because of its excellent self-contained description … This book seems to be driven by a perceived gap in the literature today … I would also like to mention that the production quality of this hardcover book is very high. I have no hesitation to say that this book is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on the principles and applications of semiconductor materials and devices.' Muhammad Zubair, Contemporary Physics

Adopting a uniquely pedagogical approach, this comprehensive textbook on the quantum mechanics of semiconductor materials and devices focuses on the materials, components and devices themselves whilst incorporating a substantial amount of fundamental physics related to condensed matter theory and quantum mechanics. Written primarily for advanced undergraduate students in physics and engineering, this book can also be used as a supporting text for introductory quantum mechanics courses, and will be of interest to anyone interested in how electronic devices function at a fundamental level. Complete with numerous exercises, and with all the necessary mathematics and physics included in appendices, this book guides the reader seamlessly through the principles of quantum mechanics and the quantum theory of metals and semiconductors, before describing in detail how devices are exploited within electric circuits and in the hardware of computers, for example as amplifiers, switches and transistors.

1. Quantum mechanics
2. Quantum tunneling
3. Standard metal model
4. Standard conductor model
5. Electric circuit theory
6. Quantum wells
7. Particle in a periodic potential
8. Bloch currents
9. Crystalline solids
10. Semiconductor doping
11. Transistors
12. Heterostructures
13. Mesoscopic physics
14. Arithmetic, logic and machines
Appendix A. Principles of quantum mechanics
Appendix B. Dirac's delta function
Appendix C. Fourier analysis
Appendix D. Classical mechanics
Appendix E. Wave function properties
Appendix F. Transfer matrix properties
Appendix G. Momentum
Appendix H. Confined particles
Appendix I. Spin and quantum statistics
Appendix J. Statistical mechanics
Appendix K. The Fermi–Dirac distribution
Appendix L. Thermal current fluctuations
Appendix M. Gaussian wave packets
Appendix N. Wave packet dynamics
Appendix O. Screening by symmetry method
Appendix P. Commutation and common eigenfunctions
Appendix Q. Interband coupling
Appendix R. Common crystal structures
Appendix S. Effective mass approximation
Appendix T. Integral doubling formula
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM], Nanotechnology [TBN], Quantum physics [quantum mechanics & quantum field theory PHQ], Physics [PH]