Semiconductor Physics

1. Front Matter

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2. Elementary Properties of Semiconductors

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   Pages 1-9

3. Energy Band Structure

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   Pages 10-34

4. Semiconductor Statistics

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   Pages 35-46

5. Charge and Energy Transport in a Nondegenerate Electron Gas

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   Pages 47-117

6. Carrier Diffusion Processes

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   Pages 118-158

7. Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model

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   Pages 159-221

8. Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model

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   Pages 222-264

9. Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model

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   Pages 265-279

10. Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena

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    Pages 280-311

11. Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown

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    Pages 312-323

12. Optical Absorption and Reflection

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    Pages 324-401

13. Photoconductivity

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    Pages 402-416

14. Light Generation by Semiconductors

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    Pages 417-441

15. Surface and Interface Properties and the Quantum Hall Effect

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    Pages 442-470

16. Miscellaneous Semiconductors

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    Pages 471-482

17. Back Matter

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This book, now in its eighth edition, still has the character of a textbook with the emphasis on "Physics". I have refrained from sacrificing topics such as the Seebeck, Thomson, Peltier and quantum Hall effects although they do not have a large-scale practical application. The various kinds of field effect transistors such as HBT, HEMT, MODFET and the chip technology have not been considered because going into details would necessarily end up with referring the interested reader to commercially available computer programs, i.e. to the Big Business world. What is new compared with the previous edition? In Chap. 1 you will now find a short description of production processes of pure single crystal silicon which is nearly free of lattice defects. In Sect. 4.14 the calculation of current in a sample subject to combined de and high-frequency ac fields is based on quantum mechanics rather than classical physics (called "photon assisted tunneling"). The calculation is applied to charge transport in quantum wires and dots in Chap.14. This chapter includes production methods for quantum dots in their regular arrangement and a dot laser which operates at room temperature. In Chap. 15 there is a new section on doped Fullerenes in view of a field effect transistor based on this material. There are two more appendices: One provides a calculation of the potentials in quantum wells, and the other is a table of 38 semiconductors and semimetals with their characteristic data.

• Quantum Hall Effect
• Scattering processes
• Semiconductors
• Standard
• algebra
• electronics
• laser
• mathematics
• model
• physics
• quantum dot
• statistics
• tables
• transport

From the reviews of the ninth edition:

"This book of K. Seeger is one of the mostly used source book in the field of semiconductor physics. … it has become the reference book of many teachers, students and researchers, both in fundamental and applied solid state science. … Altogether … this book will undoubtedly continue to be very attractive as a reference book for teachers and researchers in the field of semiconductors." (Michel Wautelet, Physicalia Magazine, Vol. 28 (1), 2006)

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