This well-established monograph and text, updated and now in its ninth edition, deals mainly with electron transport in, and optical properties of semiconductors, and includes a treatment of lasers and many other quantum processes. The book is aimed primarily at students of experimental solid-state physics, and assumes only a basic knowledge of mathematics (algebra etc.). In addition to the standard fundamental topics of semiconductor physics, the book also addresses recent developments in the fields of superlattices, quantum wires and quantum dots. New diagrams and tables provide a comprehensive source of materials data. Selected problems help readers to consolidate their knowledge and invite teachers to use this text for graduate courses on semiconductor physics and physical electronics

A well established text book giving a detailed introduction to one of the most important topics within physics Selected problems will be of benefit to students and teachers alike

Inhalt

1. Elementary Properties of Semiconductors.- 2. Energy Band Structure.- 3. Semiconductor Statistics.- 4. Charge and Energy Transport in a Nondegenerate Electron Gas.- 5. Carrier Diffusion Processes.- 6. Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model.- 7. Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model.- 8. Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model.- 9. Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena.- 10. Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown.- 11. Optical Absorption and Reflection.- 12. Photoconductivity.- 13. Light Generation by Semiconductors.- 14. Surface and Interface Properties and the Quantum Hall Effect.- 15. Miscellaneous Semiconductors.- Appendices.- A. Table A: Physical Constants.- B. Envelope wave function for Quantum Wells.- C. Table C: Semiconductor and Semimetal Data.- References.- About the Author.