Semiconductors : bonds and bands / David K Ferry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferry, David K., author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP expanding physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiconductors.

Solid state physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2013]

System Details:

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Biography/History:

David K Ferry is Regents' Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, at Arizona State University. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Texas, Austin, and was the recipient of the 1999 Cledo Brunetti Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to nanoelectronics. He is the author, or co-author, of numerous scientific articles and more than a dozen books.

Summary:

As we settle into this second decade of the 21st century, it is evident that the advances in microelectronics have truly revolutionized our day-to-day lifestyle. The growth of microelectronics itself has been driven, and in turn is calibrated by, the growth in density of transistors on a single integrated circuit, a growth that has come to be known as Moore's Law. Considering that the first transistor appeared only at the middle of the last century, it is remarkable that billions of transistors can now appear on a single chip. The technology is built upon semiconductors, materials in which the band gap has been engineered for special values suitable to the particular application. This book, written specifically for a one-semester course for graduate students, provides a thorough understanding of the key solid state physics of semiconductors and prepares readers for further advanced study, research and development work in semiconductor materials and applications. The book describes how quantum mechanics gives semiconductors unique properties that enabled the microelectronics revolution, and sustain the ever-growing importance of this revolution. Including chapters on electronic structure, lattice dynamics, electron-phonon interactions and carrier transport, it also discusses theoretical methods for computation of band structure, phonon spectra, the electron-phonon interaction and transport of carriers.

Contents:

Carrier transport

The Boltzmann transport equation

The effect of spin on transport

The ensemble Monte Carlo technique.

The electron-phonon interaction

The basic interaction

Acoustic deformation potential scattering

Piezoelectric scattering

Optical and intervalley scattering

Polar optical phonon scattering

Other scattering processes

Preface

Author biography

Introduction

What is included in device modeling?

What is in this book?

Electronic structure

Periodic potentials

Potentials and pseudopotentials

Real-space methods

Momentum space methods

The k.p method

The effective mass approximation

Semiconductor alloys

Lattice dynamics

Lattice waves and phonons

Waves in deformable solids

Lattice contribution to the dielectric function

Models for calculating phonon dynamics

Anharmonic forces and the phonon lifetime

Notes:

"Version: 20130901"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on March 28, 2014).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780750310444

OCLC:

871004532

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