Semiconductor Physics: An Introduction

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Semiconductor Physics - An Introduction - is suitable for the senior undergraduate or new graduate student majoring in electrical engineering or physics. It will also be useful to solid-state scientists and device engineers involved in semiconductor design and technology. The text provides a lucid account of charge transport, energy transport and optical processes, and a detailed description of many devices. It includes sections on superlattices and quantum well structures, the effects of deep-level impurities on transport, the quantum Hall effect and the calculation of the influence of a magnetic field on the carrier distribution function. This 6th edition has been revised and corrected, and new sections have been added to different chapters. Front Matter ....Pages I-XII Elementary Properties of Semiconductors (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 1-9 Energy Band Structure (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 10-33 Semiconductor Statistics (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 34-46 Charge and Energy Transport in a Nondegenerate Electron Gas (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 47-119 Carrier Diffusion Processes (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 120-160 Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 161-225 Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 226-269 Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 270-284 Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 285-313 Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 314-324 Optical Absorption and Reflection (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 325-405 Photoconductivity (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 406-420 Light Generation by Semiconductors (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 421-443 Properties of the Surface, Interface, and the Quantum Hall Effect (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 444-469 Miscellaneous Semiconductors (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 470-479 Back Matter ....Pages 480-515