Description: Quantum Processes in Semiconductors Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Brian K. Ridley Format: Hardback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780199677214, 978-0199677214 Synopsis This book sets out the fundamental quantum processes that are important in the physics and technology of semiconductors in a relatively informal style that graduate students will find very attractive. The fifth edition includes new chapters that expand the coverage of semiconductor physics relevant to its accompanying technology. One of the problems encountered in high-power transistors is the excessive production of phonons and the first new chapter examines the hot-phonon phenomenon and the lifetime of polar optical phonons in the nitrides. In the burgeoning field of spintronics a crucial parameter is the lifetime of a spin-polarised electron gas, and this is treated in detail in the second of the new chapters. The third new chapter moves from the treatment of bulk properties to the unavoidable effects of the spatial limitation of the semiconductor, and to the influence of surface states and the pinning of the Fermi level. As with previous editions the text restricts its attention to bulk semiconductors. The account progresses from quantum processes describable by density matrices, through the semi-classical Boltzmann equation and its solutions, to the drift-diffusion description of space-charge waves, the latter appearing in the contexts of negative differential resistance, acoustoelectric and recombination instabilities. Besides being a useful reference for workers in the field, this book will be a valuable text for graduate courses.
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Book Title: Quantum Processes in Semiconductors
Number of Pages: 448 Pages
Publication Name: Quantum Processes in Semiconductors
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item Height: 253 mm
Subject: Physics
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 1012 g
Subject Area: Material Science
Author: Brian K. Ridley
Item Width: 195 mm
Format: Hardcover
