Lattice Dynamics and Semiconductor Physics: Festschrift for Professor Kun Huang

PREFACE
 MODERN PHYSICS AND WARM FRIENDSHIP
 PART A LATTICE DYNAMICS
 ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTION REVEALED BY RAMAN AND INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY
 1. INTRODUCTION
 2.2.2. Electron-phonon coupling in layered insertion materials. In2Se3 and InSe
 3. ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTION REVEALED BY LIGHT SCATTERING.
 3.1. Light Scattering on Single Excitations.
 3.2. Light Scattering by Plasmons.
 3.3. Observation of the Plasmon-Phonon Coupling by Light Scattering.
 REFERENCES
 FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDIES OF LATTICE DYNAMICS AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTORS
 I. INTRODUCTION. II. GROUND STATE ENERGY OF A SOLIDA. Density-functional theory
 B. Electron-ion potential
 Direct summation over the conduction bands.
 Direct summation.
 B. Ground state properties
 C. Electronic properties
 V. CONCLUSIONS
 ACKNOWLEDGMENT
 REFERENCES
 POINT DEFECTS AND RECOMBINATION IN SEMICONDUCTORS
 1. INTRODUCTION
 2. ENERGY LEVELS OF LOCALIZED POINT DEFECTS
 2.1 Defect Wave Function Localization and Electron-Phonon Coupling --
Extrinsic Self-Trapping
 2.2 Metastable Defects (DX-centers)
 2.2.1. Donors in CdF2.
 2.2.2. DX centers in AlGaAs.
 2.2.3. Structural models of metastable defects. 2.3 Many-Electron Phenomena2.3.1 Problem of negative-U.
 2.3.2 Transition metal impurity levels.
 3. DEFECT MEDIATED RECOMBINATION
 3.1 Multiphonon Processes
 3.2 Auger-type processes
 3.1. Auger-type carrier trapping
 3.2. Luminescence quenching by the Auger effect
 3.3 Recombination enhanced defect reactions
 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS
 5. REFERENCES
 MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND QUANTUM MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS OF STATIC AND DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF BULK AND SURFACE PHONONS
 1. INTRODUCTION
 2. PATH INTEGRAL QUANTUM MONTE CARLO EVALUATION OF THERMODYNAMIC FUNCTIONS OF ANHARMONIC CRYSTALS. 3. MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF SURFACE PHONONS4. CONCLUSIONS
 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 REFERENCES
 LASER STUDIES OF POLARITONS
 REFERENCES
 QUANTAL VERSUS CLASSICAL PICTURES FOR THE OPTICALLY EXCITED ELECTRON INTERACTING WITH PHONONS
 1. Introduction
 2. The Zero-Phonon Line and the Phonon Sidebands
 3. The Classical Limit and the Interaction Mode
 4. Quantal versus Classical Pictures
 References
 Phonoriton: A New Elementary Excitation in Semiconductors under Intense Pump Conditions
 0. Historical Background
 1. Introduction
 2. Two level system
 3. Existence Conditions For Phonoriton. 4. Phonoriton: Relation to Inverse Raman Scattering5. Experimental Detection of the Phonoriton
 a) A Proposed Non -Linear RBS Experiment
 b) A Proposed Reflection Experiment
 6 Threshold behavior, Coherence and Noise, Squeezing
 7. Concluding Remark
 References
 Quantum Theory of Surface Phonon-Polaritons
 I. INTRODUCTION
 II. BASIC VIEWPOINT OF THE QUANTUM THEORY METHOD
 2.1 Some Difficulties
 2.2 Main Contents of The Quantum Theory of Surface Phonon-Polaritons
 III. HAMILTONIAN OF THE PH0N0N-PH0T0N INTERACTION SYSTEM
 3.1 The Matter Hamiltonian
 3.2 The Radiation Hamiltonian.