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Basic Semiconductor Physics

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Chihiro Hamaguchi

    1. Graduated School of Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering, Osaka University, Suita City, Osaka, Japan

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  • Completes the Springer textbook program in the field of semiconductor physics
  • Has the potential to become as successful as the book by Yu and Cardona in this field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Energy Band Structures of Semiconductors

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    Pages 1-23

  3. Cyclotron Resonance and Energy Band Structures

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    Pages 25-64

  4. Wannier Function and Effective Mass Approximation

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    Pages 65-80

  5. Optical Properties 1

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    Pages 81-124

  6. Optical Properties 2

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    Pages 125-182

  7. Electron—Phonon Interaction and Electron Transport

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    Pages 183-259

  8. Magnetotransport Phenomena

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    Pages 261-305

  9. Quantum Structures

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    Pages 307-399

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 401-435
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More than 50 years have passed since the invention of the transistor in De­ cember 1947. The study of semiconductors was initiated in the 1930s but we had to wait for 30 years (till the 1960s) to understand the physics of semi­ conductors. When the transistor was invented, it was still unclear whether germanium had a direct gap or indirect gap. The author started to study semiconductor physics in 1960 and the physics was very difficult for a begin­ ner to understand. The best textbook of semiconductors at that time was "Electmns and Holes in Semiconductors" by W. Shockley, but it required a detailed knowledge of solid state physics to understand the detail of the book. In that period, junction transistors and Si bipolar transistors were be­ ing produced on a commercial basis, and industrialization of semiconductor technology was progressing very rapidly. Later, semiconductor devices were integrated and applied to computers successfully, resulting in a remarkable demand for semiconductor memories in addition to processors in the late 1970s to 1980s. Now we know that semiconductors play the most important role in information technology as the key devices and we cannot talk about the age of information technology without semiconductor devices. On the other hand, the physical properties of semiconductors such as the electrical and optical properties wcre investigated in detail in the 1950s, lead­ ing to the understanding of the energy band structures.

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"In conclusion, I would say that this book is a nice presentation of today's basic principles needed for a proper starting in the field of modern semiconductor physics."

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  • Graduated School of Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering, Osaka University, Suita City, Osaka, Japan

    Chihiro Hamaguchi

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