Optical Properties of III–V Semiconductors

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Introduction to Semiconductor Band Structures

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   Pages 1-16

3. Excitons in Multi-Valley Semiconductors

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   Pages 17-40

4. Many-Body Effects in Multi-Valley Scenarios

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   Pages 41-124

5. Intervalley Coupling

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   Pages 125-172

6. Summary and Outlook

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   Pages 173-177

7. Back Matter

   Pages 179-201

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Optical and electronic properties of semiconductors are strongly influenced by the different possibilities of carriers to be distributed among the various extrema of the band structure or the transfer between them. The monograph Optical Properties of III-V Semiconductors is concerned with the III-V bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors with the emphasis on the implications of multi-valley bandstructures on the physical mechanisms essential for opto-electronic devices. The optical response of such semiconductor materials is determined by many-body effects like screening, gap narrowing, Fermi-edge singularity, electron-hole plasma and liquid formation. The discussion of the latter features is presented self-consistently with the dynamics of excitons and carriers resulting from intervalley coupling.

• electronic properties
• exciton
• optical properties
• semiconductor
• spectroscopy

• Institut für Angewandte Physik, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

  Heinz Kalt

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