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This textbook presents the basic elements needed to understand and engage in research in 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. The fundamentals of optical bistability, semiconductor lasers, femtosecond excitation, optical Stark effect, 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 who have a general background in quantum mechanics.
Contents:
- Oscillator Model
- Atom in a Classical Light Field
- Periodic Lattice of Atoms
- Mesoscopic Semiconductor Structures
- Free Carrier Transitions
- Ideal Quantum Gases
- Interacting Electron Gas
- Plasmons and Plasma Screening
- Retarded Green's Function for Electrons
- Excitons
- Polaritons
- Semiconductor Bloch Equations
- Optical Quasi-Equilibrium Nonlinearities
- Optical Bistability
- The Semiconductor Laser
- Coherent Effects in Semiconductors
- Free-Carrier Electroabsorption
- Exciton Electroabsorption
- Magneto — Optics
- Semiconductor Quantum Dots
- Kinetics with Phonon Scattering
- Field Quantization
- Nonequilibrium Green's Functions
Readership: Solid state physicists, engineers, materials and optical scientists.
