Semiconductor Physics

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Elementary Properties of Semiconductors....Pages 1-8
Energy Band Structure....Pages 9-34
Semiconductor Statistics....Pages 35-50
Charge and Energy Transport in a Non-degenerate Electron Gas....Pages 51-127
Carrier Diffusion Processes....Pages 128-163
Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model....Pages 164-233
Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model....Pages 234-285
Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model....Pages 286-300
Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena....Pages 301-319
Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown....Pages 320-330
Optical Absorption and Reflection....Pages 331-419
Photoconductivity....Pages 420-432
Light Generation by Semiconductors....Pages 433-446
Properties of the Surface....Pages 447-457
Miscellaneous Semiconductors....Pages 458-475
Back Matter....Pages 476-514