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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.
Sample Chapter(s)
Chapter 1: Oscillator Model (948 KB)
Contents:
- Oscillator Model
- Atoms 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
- Excitonic Optical Stark Effect
- Wave-Mixing Spectroscopy
- Optical Properties of a Quasi-Equilibrium Electron–Hole Plasma
- Optical Bistability
- Semiconductor Laser
- Electroabsorption
- Magneto-Optics
- Quantum Dots
- Coulomb Quantum Kinetics
Readership: Graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics, quantum physics and optics.
