Quantum physics of semiconductor materials and devices / D. Jena.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jena, Debdeep, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum physics and its applications.

Semiconductors--Materials.

Semiconductors.

Quantum electronics.

Quantum theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 868 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

The goal of this book is to explore interactions between syntactic structure and discourse structure, through a case study of patterns of extraction from coordinate structures. This is the most complete account of extraction from coordinate structures to date. This is a consequence of the theoretical breadth of the survey undertaken: extraction from coordinate structures is, at first blush, a syntactic matter, but the survey ranges far beyond syntax, and this breadth raises theoretical and empirical questions across syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse structure. A complete survey of extraction from coordinate structure must pay attention to all of these domains, and their interactions. Instead of aiming to promote a single analysis, this survey motivates reasonable hypotheses which allow one to reason deductively from empirical facts to theoretical conclusions. The theoretical conclusions show that coordinate structures have the potential to discriminate between current syntactic theories, and to inform work on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse. However, in many cases, the necessary empirical work has not yet been done, and too much of the literature revolves around the same handful of examples, mainly in English. We hope that this book will inspire further work on extraction from coordinate structures, particularly in understudied languages, and provide a guide to how to tease out the theoretical implications of empirical findings.

Contents:

1 And off We Go!

2 Secrets of the Classical Electron

3 Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell

4 Damned Lies and Statistics

5 Electrons in the Quantum World

6 Red or Blue Pill: Befriending the Matrix

7 Perturbations to the Electron's Freedom

8 Electrons in a Crystal Get Their Bands, Gaps, and Masses

9 Bloch Theorem, Bandstructure, and Quantum Currents

10 Crystal Clear: Bandstructure of the Empty Lattice

11 Tight-Binding Bandstructure

12 k · p Bandstructure

13 1, 2, 3 ...∞: Pseudopotentials and Exact Bandstructure

14 Doping and Heterostructures: The Effective Mass Method

15 Carrier Statistics and Energy Band Diagrams

16 Controlling Electron Traffic in the k-Space

17 Game of Modes: Quantized R, L, and C

18 Junction Magic: Schottky, pn and Bipolar Transistors

19 Zeroes and Ones: The Ballistic Transistor

20 Fermi's Golden Rule

21 No Turning Back: The Boltzmann Transport Equation

22 Taking the Heat: Phonons and Electron-Phonon Interactions

23 Scattering, Mobility, and Velocity Saturation

24 Through the Barrier: Tunneling and Avalanches

25 Running Circles: Quantum Magnetotransport

26 Let There Be Light: Maxwell Equations

27 Light-Matter Interaction

28 Heavenly Light: Solar Cells and Photodetectors

29 Reach for the Stars: Lasers and LEDs

30 Every End is a New Beginning

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Jena, Debdeep Quantum Physics of Semiconductor Materials and Devices

ISBN:

9780191890048

9780192598929

0-19-189004-9

0-19-259892-9

OCLC:

1147888221