Electrons and Phonons in Semiconductor Multilayers - Softcover

Ridley, B. K.

 
9781107424579: Electrons and Phonons in Semiconductor Multilayers
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1107424577 ISBN 13: 9781107424579
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Advances in nanotechnology have generated semiconductor structures that are only a few molecular layers thick, and this has important consequences for the physics of electrons and phonons in such structures. This book describes in detail how confinement of electrons and phonons in quantum wells and wires affects the physical properties of the semiconductor. This second edition contains four new chapters on spin relaxation, based on recent theoretical research; the hexagonal wurtzite lattice; nitride structures, whose novel properties stem from their spontaneous electric polarization; and terahertz sources, which includes an account of the controversies that surrounded the concepts of Bloch oscillations and Wannier-Stark states. The book is unique in describing the microscopic theory of optical phonons, the radical change in their nature due to confinement, and how they interact with electrons. It will interest graduate students and researchers working in semiconductor physics.

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About the Author

B. K. Ridley is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems at the University of Essex, Colchester. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was awarded the Paul Dirac Prize and Medal in 2001 by the Institute of Physics.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107424577
ISBN 13 
9781107424579
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
422