Eckehard Schöll

Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Semiconductors

Self-Organization Induced by Generation and Recombination Processes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Semiconductors can exhibit electrical instabilities like
current runaway, threshold switching, current filamentation,
or oscillations, when they are driven far from thermodynamic
equilibrium. This book presents a coherent theoretical des-
cription of such cooperative phenomena induced by generation
and recombination processes of charge carriers in semicon-
ductors.

Produktdetails

• Springer Series in Synergetics .35
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-71929-5
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9783642719295
• ISBN-10: 3642719295
• Artikelnr.: 36121230

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 1.1 Instabilities in Semiconductors.- 1.2 Phase Transition Analogies.- 2. Bistability of Homogeneous Steady States.- 2.1 One-Carrier Models.- 2.2 Two-Carrier Models.- 2.3 Excitonic Models.- 3. Small Fluctuations from the Homogeneous Steady State.- 3.1 Linear Modes of One-Carrier Models.- 3.2 Filamentary Instability.- 3.3 Domain Instability.- 3.4 Electromagnetic Modes.- 3.5 Oscillatory Instability.- 4. Stationary Transverse Spatial Structures.- 4.1 Plane Current Layers.- 4.2 Cylindrical Current Filaments.- 4.3 Influence of Boundaries.- 4.4 Filamentation in Two-Carrier Models.- 4.5 Multiple Filaments.- 5. Stability of Transverse Spatial Structures.- 5.1 Plane Current Layers.- 5.2 Cylindrical Current Filaments.- 5.3 Finite Boundary Conditions.- 5.4 Fluctuation-Induced Phase Transitions.- 6. Self-Sustained Oscillations and Chaos.- 6.1 Mechanisms for Oscillatory Behavior.- 6.2 Limit-Cycle Oscillations.- 6.3 Chaos.- References.