Fundamentals of Semiconductors

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Introduction

   • Peter Y. Yu, Manuel Cardona

   Pages 1-15

3. Electronic Band Structures

   • Peter Y. Yu, Manuel Cardona

   Pages 17-105

4. Vibrational Properties of Semiconductors, and Electron-Phonon Interactions

   • Peter Y. Yu, Manuel Cardona

   Pages 107-158

5. Electronic Properties of Defects

   • Peter Y. Yu, Manuel Cardona

   Pages 159-202

6. Electrical Transport

   • Peter Y. Yu, Manuel Cardona

   Pages 203-241

7. Optical Properties I

   • Peter Y. Yu, Manuel Cardona

   Pages 243-343

8. Optical Properties II

   • Peter Y. Yu, Manuel Cardona

   Pages 345-426

9. Photoelectron Spectroscopy

   • Peter Y. Yu, Manuel Cardona

   Pages 427-468

10. Effect of Quantum Confinement on Electrons and Phonons in Semiconductors

    • Peter Y. Yu, Manuel Cardona

    Pages 469-551

11. Back Matter

    Pages 553-639

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This third updated edition of Fundamentals of Semiconductors attempts to fill the gap between a general solid-state physics textbook and research articles by providing detailed explanations of the electronic, vibrational, transport, and optical properties of semiconductors. The approach is physical and intuitive rather than formal and pedantic. Theories are presented to explain experimental results. This textbook has been written with both students and researchers in mind. Its emphasis is on understanding the physical properties of Si and similar tetrahedrally coordinated semiconductors. The explanations are based on physical insights. Each chapter is enriched by an extensive collection of tables of material parameters, figures, and problems. Many of these problems "lead the student by the hand" to arrive at the results.                                                                        

• Electrical transport
• Electronic materials
• Fundamental principles
• Lattice vibrations
• Optical properties
• Physics of semiconductors
• band structure
• defects
• electron
• electron spectroscopy
• electronic material
• electronics
• material
• optical properties
• photoelectron spectroscopy
• semiconductor
• solid-state physics
• tables

From the reviews:

"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

"This book, aimed at postgraduates not undergraduates, exemplifies both the difficulty of the subject and its variety. It 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                                                        

                                                                                           

• Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA

  Peter Y. Yu

• Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany

  Manuel Cardona

                            

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