Electronic Structure And Optical Properties of Semiconductors

Editors: Ahluwalia, Gurinder Kaur (Ed.)
Broadens reader understanding of an exhaustive list of chalcogen-based products used in numerous industrial applications such as data storage devices, optical communication and sensing devices
Facilitates an in-depth appreciation of the structure and properties of Group 16 elements and why they behave as they do individually and in association of other elements
Integrates scientific methods for achieving chalcogen-based commercial products
Details additional properties of chalcogenides that offer the most promise for the future

This textbook links characteristic features of atomic and electronic structures of disordered semiconductors to the device design process. It begins with a description of general concepts of disordered semiconductors, their atomic structures, the structure of energy bands, and their defects, as well as their electrical, optical, and photovoltaic properties.

This book presents a detailed description of the basic semiconductor physics. The reader is assumed to have a basic command of mathematics and some elementary knowledge of solid state physics.

The new edition of this textbook presents a detailed description of basic semiconductor physics. The text covers a wide range of important phenomena in semiconductors, from the simple to the advanced. Four different methods of energy band calculations in the full band region are explained: local empirical pseudopotential, non-local pseudopotential, KP perturbation and tight-binding methods. The effective mass approximation and electron motion in a periodic potential, Boltzmann transport equation and deformation potentials used for analysis of transport properties are discussed.