The physics of semiconductors : an introduction including nanophysics and applications / Marius Grundmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grundmann, Marius.

Series:

Graduate texts in physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiconductors.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (905 pages).

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The 4th edition of this highly successful textbook features copious material for a complete upper-level undergraduate or graduate course, guiding readers to the point where they can choose a specialized topic and begin supervised research. The textbook provides an integrated approach beginning from the essential principles of solid-state and semiconductor physics to their use in various classic and modern semiconductor devices for applications in electronics and photonics. The text highlights many practical aspects of semiconductors: alloys, strain, heterostructures, nanostructures, amorphous semiconductors, and noise, which are essential aspects of modern semiconductor research but often omitted in other textbooks. This textbook also covers advanced topics, such as Bragg mirrors, resonators, polarized and magnetic semiconductors, nanowires, quantum dots, multi-junction solar cells, thin film transistors, and transparent conductive oxides. The 4th edition includes many updates and chapters on 2D materials and aspects of topology. The text derives explicit formulas for many results to facilitate a better understanding of the topics. Having evolved from a highly regarded two-semester course on the topic, The Physics of Semiconductors requires little or no prior knowledge of solid-state physics. More than 2100 references guide the reader to historic and current literature including original papers, review articles and topical books, providing a go-to point of reference for experienced researchers as well.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

Abbreviations

Symbols

Physical Constants

1 Introduction

1.1 Timetable and Key Achievements

1.2 Nobel Prize Winners

1.3 General Information

Part I Fundamentals

2 Bonds

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Covalent Bonds

2.2.1 Electron-Pair Bond

2.2.2 sp3 Bonds

2.2.3 sp2 Bonds

2.3 Ionic Bonds

2.4 Mixed Bonds

2.5 Metallic Bonding

2.6 Van-der-Waals Bonds

2.7 Hamilton Operator of the Solid

3 Crystals

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Crystal Structure

3.3 Lattice

3.3.1 2D Bravais Lattices

3.3.2 3D Bravais Lattices

3.3.3 Unit Cell

3.3.4 Point Group

3.3.5 Space Group

3.3.6 Polycrystalline Semiconductors

3.3.7 Amorphous Semiconductors

3.4 Important Crystal Structures

3.4.1 Rocksalt Structure

3.4.2 CsCl Structure

3.4.3 Diamond Structure

3.4.4 Zincblende Structure

3.4.5 Wurtzite Structure

3.4.6 Chalcopyrite Structure

3.4.7 Spinel Structure

3.4.8 Fluorite Structure

3.4.9 Delafossite Structure

3.4.10 Perovskite Structure

3.4.11 NiAs Structure

3.4.12 Further Structures

3.5 Polytypism and Polymorphism

3.6 Reciprocal Lattice

3.6.1 Reciprocal Lattice Vectors

3.6.2 Miller Indices

3.6.3 Brillouin Zone

3.7 Alloys

3.7.1 Random Alloys

3.7.2 Phase Diagram

3.7.3 Virtual Crystal Approximation

3.7.4 Lattice Parameter

3.7.5 Ordering

4 Structural Defects

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Point Defects

4.2.1 Point Defect Types

4.2.2 Thermodynamics

4.2.3 Diffusion

4.2.4 Dopant Distribution

4.2.5 Large Concentration Effects

4.3 Dislocations

4.3.1 Dislocation Types

4.3.2 Visualization of Dislocations by Etching

4.3.3 Impurity Hardening

4.4 Extended Defects

4.4.1 Micro-cracks

4.4.2 Stacking Faults

4.4.3 Grain Boundaries

4.4.4 Antiphase and Inversion Domains

4.5 Disorder

5 Mechanical Properties

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Lattice Vibrations

5.2.1 Monoatomic Linear Chain

5.2.2 Diatomic Linear Chain

5.2.3 Mode Patterns and Topological States

5.2.4 Lattice Vibrations of a Three-Dimensional Crystal

5.2.5 Density of States

5.2.6 Phonons

5.2.7 Localized Vibrational Modes

5.2.8 Phonons in Alloys

5.2.9 Disorder

5.2.10 Topological Edge States of a Linear Chain

5.3 Elasticity

5.3.1 Thermal Expansion

5.3.2 Stress-Strain Relation

5.3.3 Biaxial Stress

5.3.4 Three-Dimensional Stress

5.3.5 Substrate Bending

5.3.6 Scrolling

5.4 Plasticity

5.4.1 Critical Thickness

5.4.2 Cleaving

5.4.3 Wafer Breakage

6 Band Structure

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Electrons in a Periodic Potential

6.2.1 Bloch's Theorem

6.2.2 Free-Electron Dispersion

6.2.3 Non-Vanishing Potential

6.2.4 Kramer's Degeneracy

6.2.5 Symmetry Considerations

6.2.6 Topological Considerations

6.3 Band Structures of Selected Semiconductors

6.3.1 Silicon

6.3.2 Germanium

6.3.3 GaAs

6.3.4 GaP

6.3.5 GaN

6.3.6 Lead Salts

Notes:

6.3.7 MgO, ZnO, CdO.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Grundmann, Marius The Physics of Semiconductors : An Introduction Including Nanophysics and Applications

ISBN:

9783030515690

3030515699

OCLC:

1241444824

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