Semiconductor Physics: An Introduction

Front Matter ....Pages I-XII
 Elementary Properties of Semiconductors  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 1-9
 Energy Band Structure  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 10-33
 Semiconductor Statistics  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 34-46
 Charge and Energy Transport in a Nondegenerate Electron Gas  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 47-119
 Carrier Diffusion Processes  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 120-160
 Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 161-225
 Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 226-269
 Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 270-284
 Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 285-313
 Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 314-324
 Optical Absorption and Reflection  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 325-405
 Photoconductivity  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 406-420
 Light Generation by Semiconductors  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 421-443
 Properties of the Surface, Interface, and the Quantum Hall Effect  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 444-469
 Miscellaneous Semiconductors  (Karlheinz Seeger)....Pages 470-479
Back Matter ....Pages 480-515