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The Physics of Semiconductors

An Introduction Including Devices and Nanophysics

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Marius Grundmann

    1. Institut für Experimentelle Physik II, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig

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  • Very comprehensive textbook on semiconductor physics and related scientific aspects
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXXI
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      Pages 1-12

  3. Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Bonds

      Pages 15-28

    3. Crystals

      Pages 29-62

    4. Defects

      Pages 63-76

    5. Mechanical Properties

      Pages 77-109

    6. Band Structure

      Pages 111-147

    7. Electronic Defect States

      Pages 149-187

    8. Transport

      Pages 189-211

    9. Optical Properties

      Pages 213-249

    10. Recombination

      Pages 251-276

    11. Heterostructures

      Pages 277-301

    12. External Fields

      Pages 303-319

    13. Nanostructures

      Pages 321-344

    14. Polarized Semiconductors

      Pages 345-357

    15. Magnetic Semiconductors

      Pages 359-367

    16. Organic Semiconductors

      Pages 369-374

    17. Dielectric Structures

      Pages 375-398

  4. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 399-399
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Semiconductordevicesarenowadayscommonplaceineveryhousehold. Inthe late1940stheinventionofthetransistorwasthestartofarapiddevelopment towards ever faster and smaller electronic components. Complex systems are built with these components. The main driver of this development was the economical bene?t from packing more and more wiring, transistors and fu- tionality on a single chip. Now every human is left with about 100 million transistors (on average). Semiconductor devices have also enabled econo- cally reasonable ?ber-based optical communication, optical storage and hi- frequency ampli?cation and have only recently revolutionized photography, display technology and lighting. Along with these tremendous technological developments, semiconductors have changed the way we work, communicate, entertain and think. The technological sophistication of semiconductor - terials and devices is progressing continuously with a large worldwide e?ort in human and monetary capital, partly evolutionary,partly revolutionary embracing the possibilities of nanotechnology. For students, semiconductors o?er a rich, diverse and exciting ?eld with a great tradition and a bright future. This book is based on the two semester semiconductor physics course taught at Universit¨ at Leipzig. The material gives the students an overview of the subject as a whole and brings them to the point where they can specialize and enter supervised laboratory research. For the interested reader some - ditional topics are included in the book that are taught in subsequent, more specialized courses. The ?rst semester contains the fundamentals of semiconductor physics (Part I – Chaps. 1–17).

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"This book is based on the author’s two semester semiconductor course at the University of Leipzig. … This will be ideal for undergraduate courses to give an overview of fundamentals about semiconductors. … The book meets its main objective of giving a summary of semiconductor fundamentals, devices and applications. … I recommend this book for all university libraries and as a textbook for undergraduate courses." (Chennupati Jagadish, Australian Physics, Vol. 44 (4), 2007)

"This book is based on a two-semester semiconductor physics course. … The book presents a broad survey of modern areas in semiconductor physics and technology with lots of figures and diagrams. … The book is aimed at upper-level-undergraduate and graduate courses on semiconductor physics, solid-state physics and physical electronics. Readers will benefit from the excellent integration of text and figures, references and an index." (Reva Garg, Optics and Photonics News, April, 2007)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Experimentelle Physik II, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig

    Marius Grundmann

About the author

Professor Dr. Marius Grundmann has studied physics at the Technical University Berlin. He has worked on the epitaxy and the characterization of electronic and optical properties of semiconductor heterostructures and nanostructures and devices made from them. Since 2000 he is professor for experimental physics at the University of Leipzig.

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