| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| The Free Electron Picture | p. 1 |
| Atoms in Solids | p. 1 |
| The Drude Model | p. 2 |
| Quantum Mechanics and Electrons | p. 12 |
| The Density of States | p. 16 |
| Filling of Electronic States | p. 18 |
| Periodicity: Crystal Structures | p. 28 |
| Periodicity of a Crystal | p. 28 |
| Basic Lattice Types | p. 32 |
| The Reciprocal Lattice | p. 40 |
| Artificial Structures: Superlattices | p. 47 |
| Surfaces: Ideal Versus Real | p. 50 |
| Interfaces | p. 53 |
| Wave Diffraction in Periodic Structures | p. 61 |
| Bragg's Law | p. 62 |
| Laue Conditions | p. 64 |
| Diffraction from Random Scatterers | p. 66 |
| Diffraction Methods | p. 74 |
| Temperature Dependent Effects | p. 78 |
| Electrons in Periodic Structures | p. 91 |
| Periodicity and Bloch's Theorem | p. 92 |
| Significance of k: Crystal Momentum | p. 97 |
| Electron States in a Weak Periodic Potential | p. 100 |
| A Simple Description of Band Filling | p. 115 |
| Holes in Semiconductors | p. 117 |
| Semiconductor Bandstructure | p. 126 |
| The Tight Binding Method | p. 127 |
| The Spin-Orbit Coupling | p. 140 |
| Symmetry of Conduction Bandedge States | p. 146 |
| Symmetry of Valence Bandedge States | p. 147 |
| The Orthogonalized Plane Wave Method | p. 149 |
| The Pseudopotential Method | p. 150 |
| The k[actual symbol not reproducible]p Method | p. 151 |
| Selected Bandstructures | p. 159 |
| Density of States in Semiconductors | p. 169 |
| Bandstructure Modifications: Alloys and Heterostructures | p. 178 |
| Bandstructure of Semiconductor Alloys | p. 179 |
| Bandstructure Modifications by Heterostructures | p. 190 |
| Bandstructure in Quantum Wells | p. 194 |
| Bandstructure in Superlattices | p. 201 |
| Bandstructure Modifications Through Strain | p. 218 |
| Critical Thickness | p. 218 |
| Elastic Strain | p. 221 |
| The Elastic Constants | p. 223 |
| Strain Tensor in Lattice Mismatched Epitaxy | p. 226 |
| Deformation Potential Theory | p. 228 |
| Bandgap Alteration | p. 246 |
| Built-in Electric Fields in Strained Quantum Wells | p. 246 |
| Doping of Semiconductors | p. 254 |
| Intrinsic Carrier Concentration | p. 254 |
| The Effective Mass Equation for Shallow Levels | p. 258 |
| Extrinsic Carriers | p. 266 |
| Population of Impurity Levels, Carrier Freeze-out | p. 267 |
| Heavily Doped Semiconductors | p. 270 |
| Modulation Doping | p. 274 |
| Hydrogenic Impurities in Quantum Wells | p. 276 |
| Lattice Vibrations: Phonons | p. 285 |
| Considerations for Crystal Binding | p. 286 |
| Crystal Vibrations for a Monatomic Basis | p. 292 |
| Crystal Vibrations for a Diatomic Basis | p. 296 |
| Phonons: Quantization of Lattice Vibrations | p. 299 |
| Polar Optical Phonons | p. 301 |
| Optical Phonon-Photon Interactions | p. 304 |
| Phonon Statistics | p. 309 |
| Models for Phonon Energy | p. 312 |
| Phonon Dispersion Measurement Techniques | p. 315 |
| Phonons in Heterostructures | p. 318 |
| Transport: General Formalism | p. 324 |
| Relaxation Times | p. 326 |
| The Boltzmann Transport Equation | p. 327 |
| Averaging Procedures | p. 336 |
| Mobility Measurement Techniques | p. 338 |
| Hall Mobility | p. 342 |
| Solution of the Boltzmann Transport Equation | p. 346 |
| Defect and Carrier-Carrier Scattering | p. 357 |
| Ionized Impurity Scattering | p. 359 |
| Alloy Scattering | p. 369 |
| Carrier-Carrier Scattering | p. 374 |
| Auger Processes and Impact Ionization | p. 381 |
| Phonon Scattering | p. 397 |
| General Formalism | p. 397 |
| Limits on Phonon Wavevectors | p. 403 |
| Selection Rules for Phonon Scattering | p. 410 |
| Acoustic Phonon Scattering | p. 411 |
| Deformation Potential Optical Phonon Scattering | p. 414 |
| Polar Optical Phonon Scattering | p. 417 |
| Electron-Plasmon Scattering | p. 424 |
| Piezoelectric Scattering | p. 425 |
| Intervalley Scattering | p. 427 |
| The Polaron | p. 429 |
| The Velocity-Field Relations | p. 433 |
| Low Field Transport | p. 434 |
| High Field Transport | p. 437 |
| Monte Carlo Simulation of Carrier Transport | p. 439 |
| Electron Transport Monte Carlo Calculations | p. 459 |
| High Field Electron Transport in Si | p. 462 |
| Hole Transport Monte Carlo Calculations | p. 464 |
| Balance Equation Approach to High Field Transport | p. 471 |
| Impact Ionization in Semiconductors | p. 475 |
| Zener-Bloch Oscillations | p. 480 |
| Transport in Heterostructures | p. 496 |
| Parallel Transport in Quantum Wells and MODFETs | p. 498 |
| Mobility in a MODFET Quantum Well | p. 505 |
| High Temperature / High Field Transport | p. 511 |
| Effect of Strain on Transport | p. 511 |
| Transport in Quantum Wires | p. 517 |
| Real Space Charge Transfer | p. 518 |
| Avalanche Processes in Quantum Well Structures | p. 520 |
| Quantum Transport | p. 523 |
| Resonant Tunneling | p. 524 |
| Tunneling in Heterostructures with Spatially Varying Central Cell Symmetry | p. 530 |
| Perpendicular Transport in Superlattices | p. 539 |
| Quantum Interference Effects | p. 541 |
| Density Matrix Formalism | p. 544 |
| Interactions of Photons With Semiconductors | p. 557 |
| Maxwell Equations, Vector Potential, and Gauge Transformations | p. 559 |
| Drude-Zener Theory | p. 564 |
| Optical Modes in Ionic Crystals | p. 567 |
| Kramers-Kronig Relation | p. 568 |
| Electrons in an Electromagnetic Field | p. 572 |
| Selection Rules for Optical Processes | p. 576 |
| Interband Transitions | p. 578 |
| Optical Processes in Semiconductor Lasers | p. 586 |
| Indirect Interband Transitions | p. 595 |
| Intraband Transitions | p. 599 |
| Optical Properties in Semiconductors: Excitonic Transitions | p. 615 |
| Excitonic States in Semiconductors | p. 617 |
| Optical Properties with Inclusion of Excitonic Effects | p. 622 |
| Excitonic States in Quantum Wells | p. 627 |
| Excitonic Absorption in Quantum Wells | p. 632 |
| Exciton Broadening Effects | p. 634 |
| Modulation of Excitonic Transitions: Quantum Confined Stark Effect | p. 637 |
| Exiton Quenching | p. 646 |
| Refractive Index Modulation Due to Exciton Modulation | p. 653 |
| Strain Induced Electric Fields for Enhanced Optical Modulation | p. 657 |
| Radiative Recombination from Excitonic States | p. 658 |
| Semiconductors in Magnetic Fields | p. 668 |
| Semiclassical Dynamics of Electrons in a Magnetic Field | p. 670 |
| Semiclassical Theory of Magnetotransport | p. 675 |
| Quantum Mechanical Approach to Electrons in a Magnetic Field | p. 676 |
| The Aharonov-Bohm Effect | p. 683 |
| The De Haas-Van Alphen Effect | p. 686 |
| The Shubnikov-De Haas Effect | p. 691 |
| The Quantum Hall Effect | p. 695 |
| Magneto-optics in Landau Levels | p. 701 |
| Excitons in Magnetic Field | p. 703 |
| Shallow Impurities in Magnetic Fields | p. 707 |
| Magnetic Semiconductors | p. 709 |
| Defects and Disorder in Semiconductors | p. 714 |
| Point Defects in Semiconductors | p. 715 |
| Trapping and Recombination | p. 723 |
| Dislocations and Lattice Mismatched Epitaxy | p. 728 |
| Disordered Semiconductors | p. 738 |
| Extended and Localized States | p. 739 |
| Mesoscopic Structures | p. 751 |
| And Now Something of Real Consequence: Devices | p. 759 |
| Some Recent Trends | p. 759 |
| Requirements for Successful Devices | p. 760 |
| A Summary of Some Important Devices | p. 768 |
| A. The Wave Packet Picture | p. 783 |
| B. Electron in a Quantum Well | p. 788 |
| C. The Harmonic Oscillator Problem | p. 791 |
| D. Combination of Angular Momentum States | p. 795 |
| E. Stationary Perturbation Theory | p. 797 |
| F. Eigenvalue Method to Solve Coupled Equations | p. 801 |
| G. The Zeeman Effect | p. 804 |
| H. The Variational Method | p. 807 |
| I. Time Dependent Perturbation Theory and the Fermi Golden Rule | p. 810 |
| J. Gaussian and MKSA Units | p. 815 |
| K. Numerical Evaluation of Some Physical Parameters | p. 819 |
| L. Selected Properties of Semiconductors | p. 824 |
| M. Evaluation of Scattering Rates for a Monte Carlo Program | p. 828 |
| N. Wide Band Gap Semiconductors | p. 836 |
| Index | p. 843 |
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