Quantum Theory Of The Optical And Electronic Properties Of Semiconductors

Author : Hartmut Haug,Stephan W. Koch
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 472 pages
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Release : 2004
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9812387560

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Quantum Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors by Hartmut Haug,Stephan W. Koch Pdf

This invaluable textbook presents the basic elements needed to understand and research into semiconductor physics. It deals with elementary excitations in bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors, including quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots. The basic principles underlying optical nonlinearities are developed, including excitonic and many-body plasma effects. Fundamentals of optical bistability, semiconductor lasers, femtosecond excitation, the optical Stark effect, the semiconductor photon echo, magneto-optic effects, as well as bulk and quantum-confined Franz-Keldysh effects, are covered. The material is presented in sufficient detail for graduate students and researchers with a general background in quantum mechanics.

Author : Hartmut Haug,Stephan W Koch
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789813101111

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Quantum Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors by Hartmut Haug,Stephan W Koch Pdf

This invaluable textbook presents the basic elements needed to understand and research into semiconductor physics. It deals with elementary excitations in bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors, including quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots. The basic principles underlying optical nonlinearities are developed, including excitonic and many-body plasma effects. Fundamentals of optical bistability, semiconductor lasers, femtosecond excitation, the optical Stark effect, the semiconductor photon echo, magneto-optic effects, as well as bulk and quantum-confined Franz–Keldysh effects, are covered. The material is presented in sufficient detail for graduate students and researchers with a general background in quantum mechanics. This fifth edition includes an additional chapter on 'Quantum Optical Effects' where the theory of quantum optical effects in semiconductors is detailed. Besides deriving the 'semiconductor luminescence equations' and the expression for the stationary luminescence spectrum, results are presented to show the importance of Coulombic effects on the semiconductor luminescence and to elucidate the role of excitonic populations.

Author : Hartmut Haug,Stephan W Koch
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813104785

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Quantum Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors by Hartmut Haug,Stephan W Koch Pdf

This textbook presents the basic elements needed to understand and engage in research in semiconductor physics. It deals with elementary excitations in bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors, including quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots. The basic principles underlying optical nonlinearities are developed, including excitonic and many-body plasma effects. The fundamentals of optical bistability, semiconductor lasers, femtosecond excitation, optical Stark effect, semiconductor photon echo, magneto-optic effects, as well as bulk and quantum-confined Franz-Keldysh effects are covered. The material is presented in sufficient detail for graduate students and researchers who have a general background in quantum mechanics. Request Inspection Copy

Author : Ming Fu Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:952188151

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Modern Semiconductor Quantum Physics by Ming Fu Li Pdf

The energy band theory of a perfect crystal. Optical properties of semiconductors. Electronic states at defects and impurities.

Author : James R. Chelikowsky,Steven G. Louie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0792396669

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Quantum Theory of Real Materials by James R. Chelikowsky,Steven G. Louie Pdf

A Festschrift in honor of Professor Marvin L. Cohen This volume is a Festschrift in honor of Professor Marvin L. Cohen. The articles, contributed by leading researchers in condensed matter physics, high-light recent advances in the use of quantum theory to explain and predict properties of real materials. The invention of quantum mechanics in the 1920's provided detailed descriptions of the electronic structure of atoms. However, a similar understanding of solids has been achieved only in the past 30 years, owing to the complex electron-ion and electron electron interactions in these systems. Professor Cohen is a central figure in this achievement. His development of the pseudopotential and total energy methods provided an alternate route using computers for the exploration of solids and new materials even when they have not yet been synthesized. Professor Cohen's contributions to materials theory have been both fundamental and encompassing. The corpus of his work consists of over 500 papers and a textbook. His band structures for semiconductors are used worldwide by researchers in solid state physics and chemistry and by device engineers. Professor Cohen's own use of his theories has resulted in the determination of the electronic structure, optical properties, structural and vibrational properties, and superconducting properties of numerous condensed matter systems including semiconductors, metals, surfaces, interfaces, defects in solids, clusters, and novel materials such as the fullerides and nanotubes.

Author : Alain Diebold,Tino Hofmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030803230

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Optical and Electrical Properties of Nanoscale Materials by Alain Diebold,Tino Hofmann Pdf

This book covers the optical and electrical properties of nanoscale materials with an emphasis on how new and unique material properties result from the special nature of their electronic band structure. Beginning with a review of the optical and solid state physics needed for understanding optical and electrical properties, the book then introduces the electronic band structure of solids and discusses the effect of spin orbit coupling on the valence band, which is critical for understanding the optical properties of most nanoscale materials. Excitonic effects and excitons are also presented along with their effect on optical absorption. 2D materials, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, are host to unique electrical properties resulting from the electronic band structure. This book devotes significant attention to the optical and electrical properties of 2D and topological materials with an emphasis on optical measurements, electrical characterization of carrier transport, and a discussion of the electronic band structures using a tight binding approach. This book succinctly compiles useful fundamental and practical information from one of the fastest growing research topics in materials science and is thus an essential compendium for both students and researchers in this rapidly moving field.

Author : Peter YU,Manuel Cardona
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540254706

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Fundamentals of Semiconductors by Peter YU,Manuel Cardona Pdf

Excellent bridge between general solid-state physics textbook and research articles packed with providing detailed explanations of the electronic, vibrational, transport, and optical properties of semiconductors "The most striking feature of the book is its modern outlook ... provides a wonderful foundation. The most wonderful feature is its efficient style of exposition ... an excellent book." Physics Today "Presents the theoretical derivations carefully and in detail and gives thorough discussions of the experimental results it presents. This makes it an excellent textbook both for learners and for more experienced researchers wishing to check facts. I have enjoyed reading it and strongly recommend it as a text for anyone working with semiconductors ... I know of no better text ... I am sure most semiconductor physicists will find this book useful and I recommend it to them." Contemporary Physics Offers much new material: an extensive appendix about the important and by now well-established, deep center known as the DX center, additional problems and the solutions to over fifty of the problems at the end of the various chapters.

Author : Ladislaus B nyai,Stephan W. Koch
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9810213905

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Semiconductor Quantum Dots by Ladislaus B nyai,Stephan W. Koch Pdf

Semiconductor Quantum Dots presents an overview of the background and recent developments in the rapidly growing field of ultrasmall semiconductor microcrystallites, in which the carrier confinement is sufficiently strong to allow only quantized states of the electrons and holes. The main emphasis of this book is the theoretical analysis of the confinement induced modifications of the optical and electronic properties of quantum dots in comparison with extended materials. The book develops the theoretical background material for the analysis of carrier quantum-confinement effects, introduces the different confinement regimes for relative or center-of-mass motion quantization of the electron-hole-pairs, and gives an overview of the best approximation schemes for each regime. A detailed discussion of the carrier states in quantum dots is presented and surface polarization instabilities are analyzed, leading to the self-trapping of carriers near the surface of the dots. The influence of spin-orbit coupling on the quantum-confined carrier states is discussed. The linear and nonlinear optical properties of small and large quantum dots are studied in detail and the influence of the quantum-dot size distribution in many realistic samples is outlined. Phonons in quantum dots as well as the influence of external electric or magnetic fields are also discussed. Last but not least the recent developments dealing with regular systems of quantum dots are also reviewed. All things included, this is an important piece of work on semiconductor quantum dots not to be dismissed by serious researchers and physicists.

Author : S. V. Gaponenko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521582414

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Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanocrystals by S. V. Gaponenko Pdf

Examines the optical properties of low-dimensional semiconductor structures, a hot research area - for graduate students and researchers.

Author : Marvin L. Cohen,James R. Chelikowsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642613388

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Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of Semiconductors by Marvin L. Cohen,James R. Chelikowsky Pdf

Author : Yasuaki Masumoto,T. Takagahara
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540428054

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Semiconductor Quantum Dots by Yasuaki Masumoto,T. Takagahara Pdf

Growth of Self Organized Quantum Dots / J.-S. Lee / - Excitonic Structures and Optical Properties of Quantum Dots / Toshihide Takagahara / - Electron-Phonon Interactions in Semiconductor Quantum Dots / Toshihide Takagahara / - Micro-Imaging and Single Dot Spectroscopy of Self Assembled Quantum Dots / Mitsuru Sugisaki / - Persistent Spectral Hole Burning in Semiconductor Quantum Dots / Yasuaki Masumoto / - Dynamics of Carrier Relaxation in Self Assembled Quantum Dots / Ivan V. Ignatiev, Igor E. Kozin / - Resonant Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots / Alexander Baranov / - Homogeneous Width of Confined Excitons in Quantum Dots - Experimental / Yasuaki Masumoto / - Theory of Exciton Dephasing in Semiconductor Quantum Dots / Toshihide Takagahara / - Excitonic Optical Nonlinearity and Weakly Correlated Exciton-Pair States / Selvakumar V. Nair, Toshihide Takagahara / - Coulomb Effects in the Optical Spectra of Highly Excited Semiconductor Quantum Dots / Selvakumar V. Nair / - Device ...

Author : Winfried Mönch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783662069455

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Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Interfaces by Winfried Mönch Pdf

Using the continuum of interface-induced gap states (IFIGS) as a unifying theme, Mönch explains the band-structure lineup at all types of semiconductor interfaces. These intrinsic IFIGS are the wave-function tails of electron states, which overlap a semiconductor band-gap exactly at the interface, so they originate from the quantum-mechanical tunnel effect. He shows that a more chemical view relates the IFIGS to the partial ionic character of the covalent interface-bonds and that the charge transfer across the interface may be modeled by generalizing Pauling?s electronegativity concept. The IFIGS-and-electronegativity theory is used to quantitatively explain the barrier heights and band offsets of well-characterized Schottky contacts and semiconductor heterostructures, respectively.

Author : Claus F. Klingshirn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540383475

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Semiconductor Optics by Claus F. Klingshirn Pdf

The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated.

Author : Ming-Fu Li
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789810248932

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Modern Semiconductor Quantum Physics by Ming-Fu Li Pdf

Modern Semiconductor Quantum Physics has the following constituents: (1) energy band theory: pseudopotential method (empirical and ab initio); density functional theory; quasi-particles; LCAO method; k.p method; spin-orbit splitting; effect mass and Luttinger parameters; strain effects and deformation potentials; temperature effects. (2) Optical properties: absorption and exciton effect; modulation spectroscopy; photo luminescence and photo luminescence excitation; Raman scattering and polaritons; photoionization. (3) Defects and Impurities: effective mass theory and shallow impurity states; deep state cluster method, super cell method, Green's function method; carrier recombination kinetics; trapping transient measurements; electron spin resonance; electron lattice interaction and lattice relaxation effects; multi-phonon nonradiative recombination; negative U center, DX center and EL2 Defects. (4) Semiconductor surfaces: two dimensional periodicity and surface reconstruction; surface electronic states; photo-electron spectroscopy; LEED, STM and other experimental methods. (5) Low-dimensional structures: Heterojunctions, quantum wells; superlattices, quantum-confined Stark effect and Wannier-Stark ladder effects; resonant tunneling, quantum Hall effect, quantum wires and quantum dots.This book can be used as an advanced textbook on semiconductor physics for graduate students in physics and electrical engineering departments. It is also useful as a research reference for solid state scientists and semiconductor device engineers.

Author : Lok C. Lew Yan Voon,Morten Willatzen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540928720

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The k p Method by Lok C. Lew Yan Voon,Morten Willatzen Pdf

I ?rst heard of k·p in a course on semiconductor physics taught by my thesis adviser William Paul at Harvard in the fall of 1956. He presented the k·p Hamiltonian as a semiempirical theoretical tool which had become rather useful for the interpre- tion of the cyclotron resonance experiments, as reported by Dresselhaus, Kip and Kittel. This perturbation technique had already been succinctly discussed by Sho- ley in a now almost forgotten 1950 Physical Review publication. In 1958 Harvey Brooks, who had returned to Harvard as Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics in which I was enrolled, gave a lecture on the capabilities of the k·p technique to predict and ?t non-parabolicities of band extrema in semiconductors. He had just visited the General Electric Labs in Schenectady and had discussed with Evan Kane the latter’s recent work on the non-parabolicity of band extrema in semiconductors, in particular InSb. I was very impressed by Dean Brooks’s talk as an application of quantum mechanics to current real world problems. During my thesis work I had performed a number of optical measurements which were asking for theoretical interpretation, among them the dependence of effective masses of semiconductors on temperature and carrier concentration. Although my theoretical ability was rather limited, with the help of Paul and Brooks I was able to realize the capabilities of the k·p method for interpreting my data in a simple way.