The Physics of Low-dimensional Semiconductors: An Introduction - Brossura

Davies, John

 
9780521484916: The Physics of Low-dimensional Semiconductors: An Introduction

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Beginning graduate introduction to low-dimensional systems and their applications.

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Descrizione del libro

Introduces the principles underlying low-dimensional semiconductors by describing two systems in detail: the two-dimensional electron gas and the quantum well. It will be valuable to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate physics or electrical engineering students studying low-dimensional systems or heterostructure device physics.

Contenuti

Preface; Introduction; 1. Foundations; 2. Electrons and phonons in crystals; 3. Heterostructures; 4. Quantum wells and low-dimensional systems; 5. Tunnelling transport; 6. Electric and magnetic fields; 7. Approximate methods; 8. Scattering rates: the Golden Rule; 9. The two-dimensional electron gas; 10. Optical properties of quantum wells; Appendix 1. Table of physical constants; Appendix 2. Properties of important semiconductors; Appendix 3. Properties of GaAs-AlAs alloys at room temperature; Appendix 4. Hermite's equation: harmonic oscillator; Appendix 5. Airy functions: triangular well; Appendix 6. Kramers-Kronig relations and response functions; Bibliography.

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9780521481489: The Physics of Low-dimensional Semiconductors: An Introduction

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ISBN 10:  0521481481 ISBN 13:  9780521481489
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1997
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