Hot Carriers in Semiconductors / David K. Ferry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferry, David K., author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP ebooks. 2021 collection.

IOP Ebooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hot carriers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

David K. Ferry is Regents' Professor Emeritus in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He was also graduate faculty in the Department of Physics and the Materials Science and Engineering program at ASU, as well as Visiting Professor at Chiba University in Japan.

Summary:

This research and reference text provides up-to-date coverage of the latest research on hot carriers in semiconductors, with a focus on the background, theoretical approaches, measurements and physical understanding required to engage with the field.

Contents:

1. Introduction

1.1. Some general observations

1.2. Optically excited hot carriers

1.3. Hot carriers in devices

1.4. What is in this book

2. High electric field transport

2.1. Velocity and mobility

2.2. Transient transport

2.3. Inter-valley scattering

2.4. Impact ionization and breakdown

2.5. Microwave studies

2.6. Ballistic devices

2.7. Real-space transfer

3. Carrier heating at low temperature

3.1. Early work

3.2. Phase-breaking

3.3. Energy relaxation time

3.4. Effects in lower dimensions

3.5. Some different systems

3.6. Magnetophonon resonance

4. Optical carrier heating

4.1. Oscillatory photoconductivity

4.2. Free-carrier optics

4.3. Optical absorption

4.4. Ultrafast excitation studies

4.5. Real-space transfer

5. Nonequilibrium phonons

5.1. The nature of the problem

5.2. Acoustic spectroscopy

5.3. Measuring the nonequilibrium phonons

5.4. Rise and fall of the phonons

5.5. Measuring the lifetime

6. Seeking the distribution function

6.1. The relaxation time approximation

6.2. Expanding in Legendre polynomials

6.3. The drifted Maxwellian distribution

6.4. The energy diffusion equations

6.5. Low-dimensional systems

6.6. Plasmon interactions

7. The ensemble Monte Carlo method

7.1. The path integral

7.2. The Monte Carlo process

7.3. Building a code

7.4. Molecular dynamics and Poisson

7.5. Real-space transfer

7.6. Full band Monte Carlo

7.7. Monte Carlo in device simulation

8. Quantum transport

8.1. Modes and the Landauer formula

8.2. Transport with the Schrödinger equation

8.3. The density matrix

8.4. Nonequilibrium Green's functions

8.5. Wigner functions

8.6. Some final comments.

Notes:

"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 18, 2022).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780750345897

0750345896

9780750339469

0750339462

9780750339476

0750339470

OCLC:

1291620593