Quantum Theory Of The Optical And Electronic Properties Of Semiconductors (5Th Edition) - Softcover

Haug, Hartmut

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9812838848 ISBN 13: 9789812838841

Publisher: Wspc, 2009

Synopsis

This invaluable textbook presents the basic elements needed to understand and research into semiconductor physics. It deals with elementary excitations in bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors, including quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots. The basic principles underlying optical nonlinearities are developed, including excitonic and many-body plasma effects. Fundamentals of optical bistability, semiconductor lasers, femtosecond excitation, the optical Stark effect, the semiconductor photon echo, magneto-optic effects, as well as bulk and quantum-confined Franz-Keldysh effects, are covered. The material is presented in sufficient detail for graduate students and researchers with a general background in quantum mechanics.This fifth edition includes an additional chapter on 'Quantum Optical Effects' where the theory of quantum optical effects in semiconductors is detailed. Besides deriving the 'semiconductor luminescence equations' and the expression for the stationary luminescence spectrum, results are presented to show the importance of Coulombic effects on the semiconductor luminescence and to elucidate the role of excitonic populations.

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Review:

One of the remarkable successes of Haug and Koch's book is the selection and the presentation of the material. The authors extract a limited number of main physical points, emphasize common features in the different phenomena and offer a unified approach and an adequately formal treatment, without overwhelming the reader with calculational details. The authors succeed in presenting the material in a rigorous but simple and elegant form, within the framework of a mathematically standard quantum mechanical approach."
"... I consider this book a useful and opportune monograph. Several problems are given at the end of each chapter, making this monograph a really effective textbook. I would like to recommend it as required reading for graduate students and researchers who intend to enter semiconductor physics and technology. -- Leonid V Keldysh, Physics Today, 1994

From Scientific American:

"The coverage of the book is broad and the style is very economical ... gives a good account of well established theoretical ideas and is an excellent starting point for any theorist new to the field."

About this edition

• Publisher: Wspc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9812838848
• ISBN 13: 9789812838841
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 484