UID:
almahu_9947391735902882
Umfang:
182
,
online resource.
ISBN:
9780750310444
Serie:
IOP Expanding Physics.
Inhalt:
As we settle into this second decade of the twenty-first century it is evident that the advances in micro-electronics have truly revolutionized our day-to-day lifestyle. The growth of microelectronics itself has been driven, and in turn is calibrated by, the growth in density of transistors on a single integrated circuit, a growth that has come to be known as Moore’s Law. Considering that the first transistor appeared only at the middle of the last century, it is remarkable that billions of transistors can now appear on a single chip. The technology is built upon semiconductors, materials in which the band gap has been engineered for special values suitable to the particular application.
Inhalt:
It is important to note that semiconductors are quite different from either metals or insulators, and their importance lies in the base they provide to a massive microelectronics and optics community and industry. This book, written for graduate students, describes how quantum mechanics gives semiconductors their unique properties that enabled the microelectronics revolution and focusses on the electronic band structure, lattice dynamics and electron-phonon interactions in semiconductors; properties that make semiconductors the foundation of the modern micro-electronics industry.
Anmerkung:
1 Introduction / 1.1 What is included in device modeling? / 1.2 What is in this book? / 2 Electronic Structure / 2.1 Periodic Potentials / 2.2 Potentials and Pseudopotentials / 2.3 Real-Space Methods / 2.4 Momentum Space Methods / 2.5 The k-p Method / 2.6 The Effective Mass Approximation / 2.7 Semiconductor Alloys / 3 Lattice Dynamics / 3.1 Lattice Waves and Phonons / 3.2 Waves in Deformable Solids / 3.3 Lattice Contribution to the Dielectric Function / 3.4 Models for Calculating Phonon Dynamics / 3.5 Anharmoic Forces and the Phonon Lifetime / 4 The Electron-Phonon Interaction / 4.1 The Basic Interaction / 4.2 Acoustic Deformation Potential Scattering / 4.3 Piezoelectric Scattering / 4.4 Optical and Intervalley Scattering / 4.5 Polar Optical Phonon Scattering / 4.6 Other Scattering Processes / 5 Carrier Transport / 5.1 The Boltzmann Transport Equation / 5.2 The Ensemble Monte Carlo Technique.
In:
IOP ebooks
Weitere Ausg.:
Printed Edition ISBN 9780750310451
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1088/978-0-750-31044-4
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/978-0-750-31044-4
