B. K. Ridley

Electrons and Phonons in Semiconductor Multilayers (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Advances in nanotechnology have generated semiconductor structures that are only a few molecular layers thick, and this has important consequences for the physics of electrons and phonons in such structures. This book describes in detail how confinement of electrons and phonons in quantum wells and wires affects the physical properties of the semiconductor. This second edition contains four new chapters on spin relaxation, based on recent theoretical research; the hexagonal wurtzite lattice; nitride structures, whose novel properties stem from their spontaneous electric polarization; and terahertz sources, which includes an account of the controversies that surrounded the concepts of Bloch oscillations and Wannier-Stark states. The book is unique in describing the microscopic theory of optical phonons, the radical change in their nature due to confinement, and how they interact with electrons. It will interest graduate students and researchers working in semiconductor physics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511537066
• Artikelnr.: 38187068

Autorenporträt

B. K. Ridley is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems at the University of Essex, Colchester. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was awarded the Paul Dirac Prize and Medal in 2001 by the Institute of Physics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Simple models of the electron-phonon interaction
2. Quantum confinement of carriers
3. Quasicontinuum theory of lattice vibrations
4. Bulk vibratory modes in an isotropic continuum
5. Optical modes in a quantum well
6. Superlattice modes
7. Optical modes in various structures
8. Electron-phonon interaction in a quantum well
9. Other scattering mechanisms
10. Quantum screening
11. The electron distribution function
12. Spin relaxation
13. Electrons and phonons in the Wurtzite lattice
14. Nitride heterostructures
15. Terahertz sources
References
Index.