Ebook: Semiconductor Physics: An Introduction

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Elementary Properties of Semiconductors....Pages 1-9
Energy Band Structure....Pages 10-33
Semiconductor Statistics....Pages 34-46
Charge and Energy Transport in a Nondegenerate Electron Gas....Pages 47-119
Carrier Diffusion Processes....Pages 120-160
Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model....Pages 161-225
Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model....Pages 226-269
Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model....Pages 270-284
Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena....Pages 285-316
Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown....Pages 317-327
Optical Absorption and Reflection....Pages 328-408
Photoconductivity....Pages 409-423
Light Generation by Semiconductors....Pages 424-448
Surface and Interface Properties and the Quantum Hall Effect....Pages 449-477
Miscellaneous Semiconductors....Pages 478-487
Back Matter....Pages 488-522

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Elementary Properties of Semiconductors....Pages 1-9
Energy Band Structure....Pages 10-33
Semiconductor Statistics....Pages 34-46
Charge and Energy Transport in a Nondegenerate Electron Gas....Pages 47-119
Carrier Diffusion Processes....Pages 120-160
Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model....Pages 161-225
Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model....Pages 226-269
Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model....Pages 270-284
Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena....Pages 285-316
Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown....Pages 317-327
Optical Absorption and Reflection....Pages 328-408
Photoconductivity....Pages 409-423
Light Generation by Semiconductors....Pages 424-448
Surface and Interface Properties and the Quantum Hall Effect....Pages 449-477
Miscellaneous Semiconductors....Pages 478-487
Back Matter....Pages 488-522
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