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This comprehensive text is aimed at graduate level students and researchers, breaking down the complexities of fabrication, use, and maintenance of heterojunctions. Topics include: introduction to quantum mechanics, Potential barriers and wells, electronic energy levels in periodic potentials, tunneling through potential barriers, distribution functions and density of states, optical properties of interband and intersubband transitions, electrical properties, techniques and measurements, growth issues, devices: Detectors and emitters.
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PREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSLIST OF SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONSChapter 1: Introduction to Quantum MechanicsChapter 2: Potential Barriers and WellsChapter 3: Electronic Energy Levels in a Periodic PotentialChapter 4: Tunneling Through Potential BarriersChapter 5: Distribution Functions and Density of StatesChapter 6: Optical PropertiesChapter 7: Electrical and Transport PropertiesChapter 8: Semiconductor Growth Technologies: Bulk, Thin Films, and NanostructuresChapter 9: Electronic Devices Chapter 10: Optoelectronic DevicesAPPENDIX: TABLESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
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Suitable for graduate level students and researchers, this work breaks down the complexities of fabrication, use, and maintenance of heterojunctions. It also includes topics such as: introduction to quantum mechanics, potential barriers and wells, electronic energy levels in periodic potentials, and tunneling through potential barriers.
