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This text brings together traditional solid-state approaches from the 20th century with developments of the early part of the 21st century, to reach an understanding of semiconductor physics in its multifaceted forms. It reveals how an understanding of what happens within the material can lead to insights into what happens in its use.
List of contents
- 1: Hamiltonians and solution techniques
- 2: Entropy, information and energy
- 3: Waves and particles in the crystal
- 4: Bandstructures
- 5: Semiconductor surfaces
- 6: Semiconductor interfaces and junctions
- 7: Point perturbations
- 8: Transport and evolution of classical and quantum ensembles
- 9: Scattering-constrained dynamics
- 10: Major scattering processes
- 11: Particle generation and recombination
- 12: Light interactions with semiconductors
- 13: Causality and Green's functions
- 14: Quantum to macroscale and linear response
- 15: Onsager relationships
- 16: Noise
- 17: Stress and strain effects
- 18: High permittivity dielectrics
- 19: Remote processes
- 20: Quantum confinement and monolayer semiconductors
- App. A: Integral transform theorems
- App. B: Various useful functions
- App. C: Random processes
- App. D: Calculus of variation and the Lagrangian method
- App. E: A thermodynamics primer
- App. F: Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution function
- App. G: Spin and spin matrices
- App. H: Density of states
- App. I: Oscillator strength
- App. J: Effective mass tensor
- App. K: A and B coefficients, and spontaneous and stimulated emission
- App. L: Helmholtz theorem and vector splitting
- App. M: Mode coupling and Purcell effect
- App. M: Vector and scalar potentials
- App. O: Analyticity, Kramers-Kronig and Hilbert transforms
- App. P: Particle velocities
About the author
Sandip Tiwari is Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering at Cornell University and Visiting Professor at Université de Paris-Sud (Orsay). His contributions to engineering have included the invention of nanocrystal memories, as a group researcher in the first demonstration of SiGe bipolar transistor and a variety of others of fundamental importance—-theoretical and experimental—-in electronic and optical devices, circuits and architectures. He was founding editor-in-chief of IEEE's Transactions on Nanotechnology. Among the various recognitions of his contributions are the Cledo Brunetti award of IEEE (2007), the Young Scientist Award from Institute of Physics' GaAs & Related Compounds (2003), the Distinguished Alumni award of IIT Kanpur (2002), and the fellowships of IEEE (1994) and APS (1998).
Summary
This text brings together traditional solid-state approaches from the 20th century with developments of the early part of the 21st century, to reach an understanding of semiconductor physics in its multifaceted forms. It reveals how an understanding of what happens within the material can lead to insights into what happens in its use.
