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Aimed at upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Materials Science, and Engineering, this textbook covers the quantum physics of semiconductors, including their practical applications in various areas and their future potential.
List of contents
- I Fundamentals
- 1: And Off We Go!
- 2: Secrets of the Classical Electron
- 3: Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell
- 4: Damned Lies, and Statistics
- 5: Electrons in the Quantum World
- 6: Red or Blue pill: Befriending the Matrix
- 7: Perturbations to the Electron's Freedom
- II Bands, Doping, and Heterostructures
- 8: Electrons in a Crystal get their Bands, Gaps and Masses
- 9: Bloch theorem, Bandstructure, and Quantum Currents
- 10: Crystal Clear: Bandstructure of the Empty Lattice
- 11: Tight-Binding Bandstructure
- 12: k . p Bandstructure
- 13: 1, 2, 3 ...: Pseudopotentials and Exact Bandstructure
- 14: Doping and Heterostructures: The Effective Mass Method
- 15: Carrier Statistics and Energy Band Diagrams
- 16: Controlling Electron Traffic in the k-Space
- III Quantum Electronics with Semiconductors
- 17: Game of Modes: Quantized R, L, and C
- 18: Junction Magic: Schottky, pn and Bipolar Transistors
- 19: Zeroes and Ones: The Ballistic Transistor
- 20: Fermi's Golden Rule
- 21: No Turning Back: The Boltzmann Transport Equation
- 22: Taking the Heat: Phonons and Electron-Phonon Interactions
- 23: Scattering, Mobility, and Velocity Saturation
- 24: Through the Barrier: Tunneling and Avalanches
- 25: Running Circles: Quantum Magnetotransport
- IV Quantum Photonics with Semiconductors
- 26: Let there be Light: Maxwell Equations
- 27: Light-Matter Interaction
- 28: Heavenly Light: Solar Cells and Photodetectors
- 29: Reach for the stars: Lasers and LEDs
- 30: Every End is a New Beginning
About the author
Debdeep Jena is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. His research and teaching interests are in the quantum physics, technology, and device applications of semiconductor and superconductor heterostructures such as III-V nitrides and oxides, and 2-dimensional crystals. He leads a research group that combines experiments and theory to investigate charge, heat, and spin transport in highly crystalline solids, and uses them to explore fundamental limits of electronic, photonic, and quantum devices. The research of this group has been published in approximately 300 papers, generated several patents, and recognized by international awards.
Summary
Aimed at upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Materials Science, and Engineering, this textbook covers the quantum physics of semiconductors, including their practical applications in various areas and their future potential.
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Engaging, attractively presented, and very clear. This book truly fills a gap.
