1. Elementary Properties of Semiconductors --; 2. Energy Band Structure --; 3. Semiconductor Statistics --; 4. Charge and Energy Transport in a Nondegenerate Electron Gas --; 5. Carrier Diffusion Processes --; 6. Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model --; 7. Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model --; 8. Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model --; 9. Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena --; 10. Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown --; 11. Optical Absorption and Reflection --; 12. Photoconductivity. --; 13. Light Generation by Semiconductors --; 4. Surface and Interface Properties and the Quantum Hall Effect --; 15. Miscellaneous Semiconductors --; A. Physical Constants --; References.
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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.