Basic semiconductor physics

"This book presents a detailed description of the basic physics of semiconductors. All the important equations describing the properties of these materials are derived without the help of other textbooks. The reader is assumed to have only a basic command of mathematics and some elementary semiconductor physics. The text covers a wide range of important semiconductor phenomena, from the simple to the advanced. Examples include recent progress in semiconductor quantum structure such as two-dimensional election-gas systems, ballistic transport, the quantum Hall effect, the Landauer formula, the Coulomb blockade and the single-electron transistor."--Jacket.

1. Energy Band Structures of Semiconductors -- 1.1. Free-Electron Model -- 1.2. Bloch Theorem -- 1.3. Nearly Free Electron Approximation -- 1.4. Reduced Zone Scheme -- 1.5. Free-Electron Bands (Empty-Lattice Bands) -- 1.6. Pseudopotential Method -- 1.7. k . p Perturbation -- 2. Cyclotron Resonance and Energy Band Structures -- 2.1. Cyclotron Resonance -- 2.2. Analysis of Valence Bands -- 2.3. Spin-Orbit Interaction -- 2.4. Non-parabolicity of the Conduction Band -- 2.5. Electron Motion in a Magnetic Field and Landau Levels -- 3. Wannier Function and Effective Mass Approximation -- 3.1. Wannier Function -- 3.2. Effective-mass Approximation -- 3.3. Shallow Impurity Levels -- 3.4. Impurity Levels in Ge and Si -- 4. Optical Properties 1 -- 4.1. Reflection and Absorption -- 4.2. Direct Transition and Absorption Coefficient -- 4.3. Joint Density of States -- 4.4. Indirect Transition -- 4.5. Exciton -- 4.6. Dielectric Function -- 4.7. Piezobirefringence -- 5. Optical Properties 2 -- 5.1. Modulation Spectroscopy -- 5.2. Raman Scattering -- 5.3. Brillouin Scattering -- 5.4. Polaritons -- 5.5. Free-Carrier Absorption and Plasmon -- 6. Electron-Phonon Interaction and Electron Transport -- 6.…