Electronic and Optoelectronic Properties of Semiconductor Structures
Jasprit Singh presents the underlying physics behind devices that drive today's technologies, utilizing carefully chosen solved examples to convey important concepts. Real-world applications are highlighted throughout the book, stressing the links between physical principles and actual devices. The volume provides engineering and physics students and professionals with complete coverage of key modern semiconductor concepts. A solutions manual and set of viewgraphs for use in lectures is available for instructors, from [email protected].
- Detailed coverage of the latest semiconductor devices, linking theoretical concepts with real-world applications
- Includes numerous worked examples and homework exercises
- Solutions and viewgraphs are available for instructors, from [email protected]
Reviews & endorsements
"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
"The writing style is clear and concise and the figures are of high quality." Materials Today
Product details
March 2007Paperback
9780521035743
560 pages
243 × 163 × 28 mm
0.876kg
30 tables 199 exercises
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Table of Contents
- 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.