Theory Of Electron Transport In Semiconductors

Author : Carlo Jacoboni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642105869

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Theory of Electron Transport in Semiconductors by Carlo Jacoboni Pdf

This book originated out of a desire to provide students with an instrument which might lead them from knowledge of elementary classical and quantum physics to moderntheoreticaltechniques for the analysisof electrontransport in semiconductors. The book is basically a textbook for students of physics, material science, and electronics. Rather than a monograph on detailed advanced research in a speci?c area, it intends to introduce the reader to the fascinating ?eld of electron dynamics in semiconductors, a ?eld that, through its applications to electronics, greatly contributed to the transformationof all our lives in the second half of the twentieth century, and continues to provide surprises and new challenges. The ?eld is so extensive that it has been necessary to leave aside many subjects, while others could be dealt with only in terms of their basic principles. The book is divided into ?ve major parts. Part I moves from a survey of the fundamentals of classical and quantum physics to a brief review of basic semiconductor physics. Its purpose is to establish a common platform of language and symbols, and to make the entire treatment, as far as pos- ble, self-contained. Parts II and III, respectively, develop transport theory in bulk semiconductors in semiclassical and quantum frames. Part IV is devoted to semiconductor structures, including devices and mesoscopic coherent s- tems. Finally, Part V develops the basic theoretical tools of transport theory within the modern nonequilibrium Green-function formulation, starting from an introduction to second-quantization formalism.

Author : Carlo Jacoboni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Condensed matter
ISBN : OCLC:1066678825

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Theory of Electron Transport in Semiconductors by Carlo Jacoboni Pdf

This book describes in details the theory of the electron transport in the materials and structures at the basis of modern micro- and nano-electronics. It leads and accompanies the reader, through a step-by-step derivation of all calculations, from the basic laws of classical and quantum physics up to the most modern theoretical techniques, such as nonequilibrium Green functions, to study transport properties of both semiconductor materials and modern low-dimensional and mesoscopic structures.

Author : B. R. Nag
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030536267

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Theory of Electrical Transport in Semiconductors by B. R. Nag Pdf

Author : B. M. Askerov
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9810212836

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Electron Transport Phenomena in Semiconductors by B. M. Askerov Pdf

This book contains the first systematic and detailed exposition of the linear theory of the stationary electron transport phenomena in semiconductors. Arbitrary isotropic and anisotropic nonparabolic bands as well as p-Ge-type bands are considered. Phonon drag effect are taken account of in an arbitrary nonquantizing magnetic field. Scattering theory is discussed in detail with account taken of the Bloch wave functions effect. Transport phenomena in the quantizing magnetic field are studied as well as the size effects in thin films. Band structures of the semiconductors and semiconductor compounds of interest are also considered.The main part of the book deals with the three important problems: charge carrier statistics in a semiconductor, classical and quantum theory of the electron transport phenomena. All the theoretical results considered as well as the validity conditions are presented in the form which may be directly used to interpret experimental data.

Author : Xiaolin Lei
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789812819024

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Balance Equation Approach to Electron Transport In Semiconductors by Xiaolin Lei Pdf

This book presents a systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date description of the physical basis of the balance equation transport theory and its applications in bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors. The different aspects of the balance equation method, originally proposed by C S Ting and the author of the present book, were reviewed in the volume entitled Physics of Hot Electron Transport in Semiconductors (edited by C S Ting, World Scientific, 1992). Since then, this method has been extensively developed and applied to various new fields, such as transport in nonparabolic systems, spatially nonuniform systems and semiconductor devices, miniband conduction of superlattices, hot-electron magnetotransport, effects of impact ionization in transport, microwave-induced magnetoresistance oscillation, radiation-driven transport and electron cooling, etc. Due to its simplicity and effectiveness, the balance equation approach has become a useful tool to tackle the many transport phenomena in semiconductors, and provides a reliable basis for developing theories, modeling devices and explaining experiments.The book may be used as a textbook by graduate students. It will also benefit researchers in the field by helping them grasp the basic principles and techniques of the method, without having to spend a lot of time digging out the information from widespread literature covering a period of 30 years.

Author : Massimo V. Fischetti,William G. Vandenberghe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319011011

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Advanced Physics of Electron Transport in Semiconductors and Nanostructures by Massimo V. Fischetti,William G. Vandenberghe Pdf

This textbook is aimed at second-year graduate students in Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Materials Science. It presents a rigorous introduction to electronic transport in solids, especially at the nanometer scale.Understanding electronic transport in solids requires some basic knowledge of Hamiltonian Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Condensed Matter Theory, and Statistical Mechanics. Hence, this book discusses those sub-topics which are required to deal with electronic transport in a single, self-contained course. This will be useful for students who intend to work in academia or the nano/ micro-electronics industry.Further topics covered include: the theory of energy bands in crystals, of second quantization and elementary excitations in solids, of the dielectric properties of semiconductors with an emphasis on dielectric screening and coupled interfacial modes, of electron scattering with phonons, plasmons, electrons and photons, of the derivation of transport equations in semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures somewhat at the quantum level, but mainly at the semi-classical level. The text presents examples relevant to current research, thus not only about Si, but also about III-V compound semiconductors, nanowires, graphene and graphene nanoribbons. In particular, the text gives major emphasis to plane-wave methods applied to the electronic structure of solids, both DFT and empirical pseudopotentials, always paying attention to their effects on electronic transport and its numerical treatment. The core of the text is electronic transport, with ample discussions of the transport equations derived both in the quantum picture (the Liouville-von Neumann equation) and semi-classically (the Boltzmann transport equation, BTE). An advanced chapter, Chapter 18, is strictly related to the ‘tricky’ transition from the time-reversible Liouville-von Neumann equation to the time-irreversible Green’s functions, to the density-matrix formalism and, classically, to the Boltzmann transport equation. Finally, several methods for solving the BTE are also reviewed, including the method of moments, iterative methods, direct matrix inversion, Cellular Automata and Monte Carlo. Four appendices complete the text.

Author : M. I. Klinger
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483158198

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Problems of Linear Electron (Polaron) Transport Theory in Semiconductors by M. I. Klinger Pdf

Problems of Linear Electron (Polaron) Transport Theory in Semiconductors summarizes and discusses the development of areas in electron transport theory in semiconductors, with emphasis on the fundamental aspects of the theory and the essential physical nature of the transport processes. The book is organized into three parts. Part I focuses on some general topics in the theory of transport phenomena: the general dynamical theory of linear transport in dissipative systems (Kubo formulae) and the phenomenological theory. Part II deals with the theory of polaron transport in a crystalline semiconductor. The last part contains a critical account of electron transport in disordered systems, including amorphous substances, with allowance for polaron effects.

Author : B.R. Nag
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642814167

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Electron Transport in Compound Semiconductors by B.R. Nag Pdf

Discovery of new transport phenomena and invention of electron devices through exploitation of these phenomena have caused a great deal of interest in the properties of compound semiconductors in recent years. Extensive re search has been devoted to the accumulation of experimental results, par ticularly about the artificially synthesised compounds. Significant ad vances have also been made in the improvement of the related theory so that the values of the various transport coefficients may be calculated with suf ficient accuracy by taking into account all the complexities of energy band structure and electron scattering mechanisms. Knowledge about these deve lopments may, however, be gathered only from original research contributions, scattered in scientific journals and conference proceedings. Review articles have been published from time to time, but they deal with one particular material or a particular phenomenon and are written at an advanced level. Available text books on semiconductor physics, do not cover the subject in any detail since many of them were written decades ago. There is, there fore, a definite need for a book, giving a comprehensive account of electron transport in compound semiconductors and covering the introductory material as well as the current work. The present book is an attempt to fill this gap in the literature. The first chapter briefly reviews the history of the developement of compound semiconductors and their applications. It is also an introduction to the contents of the book.

Author : Chin Sen Ting
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Science
ISBN : 9810210086

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Physics of Hot Electron Transport in Semiconductors by Chin Sen Ting Pdf

This review volume is based primarily on the balance equation approach developed since 1984. It provides a simple and analytical description about hot electron transport, particularly, in semiconductors with higher carrier density where the carrier-carrier collision is much stronger than the single particle scattering. The steady state and time-dependent hot electron transport, thermal noise, hot phonon effect, the memory effect, and other related subjects of charge carriers under strong electric fields are reviewed. The application of Zubarev's nonequilibrium statistical operator to hot electron transport and its equivalence to the balance equation method are also presented. For semiconductors with very low carrier density, the problem can be regarded as a single carrier transport which will be treated non-perturbatively by the nonequilibrium Green's function technique and the path integral theory. The last part of this book consists of a chapter on the dynamic conductivity and the shot noise suppression of a double-carrier resonant tunneling system.

Author : L. Reggiani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540388494

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Hot-Electron Transport in Semiconductors by L. Reggiani Pdf

Hot-Electron Transport in Semiconductors (Topics in Applied Physics).

Author : Xiaolin Lei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9812819037

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Balance Equation Approach to Electron Transport In Semiconductors by Xiaolin Lei Pdf

Author : David Ferry
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351973380

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Semiconductor Transport by David Ferry Pdf

The information revolution would have been radically different, or impossible, without the use of the materials known generically as semiconductors. The properties of these materials, particularly the potential for doping with impurities to create transistors and diodes and controlling the local potential by gates, are essential for microelectronics. Semiconductor Transport is an introductory text on electron transport in semiconductor materials and is written for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The book provides a thorough treatment of modern approaches to the transport properties of semiconductors and their calculation. It also introduces those aspects of solid state physics, which are vitally important for understanding transport in them.

Author : J. Devreeese
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475708752

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Linear and Nonlinear Electron Transport in Solids by J. Devreeese Pdf

Author : David K. Ferry,John Robert Barker,C. Jacobini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781468436389

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Physics of Nonlinear Transport in Semiconductors by David K. Ferry,John Robert Barker,C. Jacobini Pdf

The area of high field transport in semiconductors has been of interest since the early studies of dielectric breakdown in various materials. It really emerged as a sub-discipline of semiconductor physics in the early 1960's, following the discovery of substantial deviations from Ohm's law at high electric fields. Since that time, it has become a major area of importance in solid state electronics as semiconductor devices have operated at higher frequencies and higher powers. It has become apparent since the Modena Conference on Hot Electrons in 1973, that the area of hot electrons has ex tended weIl beyond the concept of semi-classical electrons (or holes) in homogeneous semiconductor materials. This was exemplified by the broad range of papers presented at the International Conference on Hot Electrons in Semiconductors, held in Denton, Texas, in 1977. Hot electron physics has progressed from a limited phenomeno logical science to a full-fledged experimental and precision theo retical science. The conceptual base and subsequent applications have been widened and underpinned by the development of ab initio nonlinear quantum transport theory which complements and identifies the limitations of the traditional semi-classical Boltzmann-Bloch picture. Such diverse areas as large polarons, pico-second laser excitation, quantum magneto-transport, sub-three dimensional systems, and of course device dynamics all have been shown to be strongly interactive with more classical hot electron pictures.

Author : J.M. Ziman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198507798

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Electrons and Phonons by J.M. Ziman Pdf

This is a classic text of its time in condensed matter physics.