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Semiconductor Physics

An Introduction

Authors:

  1. Karlheinz Seeger

    1. Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Festkörperphysik, Wien, Austria
      Institut für Festkörperphysik, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences (SSSOL, volume 40)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Elementary Properties of Semiconductors

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    Pages 1-9

  3. Energy Band Structure

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    Pages 10-33

  4. Semiconductor Statistics

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    Pages 34-45

  6. Carrier Diffusion Processes

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    Pages 113-152

  9. Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model

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    Pages 256-269

  10. Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena

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    Pages 270-290

  11. Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown

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    Pages 291-301

  12. Optical Absorption and Reflection

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    Pages 302-385

  13. Photoconductivity

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    Pages 386-401

  14. Light Generation by Semiconductors

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    Pages 402-424

  15. Properties of the Surface

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    Pages 425-435

  16. Miscellaneous Semiconductors

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    Pages 436-444

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 445-481
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About this book

Televisions, telephones, watches, calculators, robots, airplanes and space vehicles all depend on silicon chips. Life as we know it would hardly be possible without semiconductor devices. An understanding of how these devices work requires a detailed knowledge of the physics of semiconductors, including charge transport and the emission and absorption of electromagnetic waves. This book may serve both as a university textbook and as a reference for research and microelectronics engineering. Each section of the book begins with a description of an experiment. The theory is then developed as far as necessary to understand the experimental results. Everyone with high-school mathematics should be able to follow the calculations. A band structure calculation for the diamond lattice is supplemented with a personal computer program. Semiconductor physics developed most rapidly in the two decades following the invention of the transistor, and naturally most of the references date from this time. But recent developments such as the Gunn effect, the acoustoelectric effect, superlattices, quantum well structures, and the integral and fractional quantum Hall effect are also discussed. The book has appeared in translation in Russian, Chinese and Japanese.
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  • Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Festkörperphysik, Wien, Austria

    Karlheinz Seeger

  • Institut für Festkörperphysik, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

    Karlheinz Seeger

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