Theory of Electron Transport in Semiconductors A Pathway from Elementary Physics to Nonequilibrium Green Functions /

This book describes in details the theory of the electron transport in the materials and structures at the basis of modern micro- and nano-electronics. It leads and accompanies the reader, through a step-by-step derivation of all calculations, from the basic laws of classical and quantum physics up...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacoboni, Carlo. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
Series:Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, 165
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10586-9
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Basic Concepts in Semiconductor Physics
  • Survey of Classical Physics
  • Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics
  • Fundamentals of Statistical Physics
  • Crystal Structures and Symmetries
  • Phonons
  • Bloch States and Band Theory
  • Semiconductors
  • Part II: Semiclassical Transport in Bulk Semiconductors
  • Effective-Mass Theorems and Envelope Function
  • Semiclassical Dynamics
  • Electronic Interactions
  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Linear Transport
  • Nonlinear Transport
  • Monte Carlo Simulation of Bulk Electron Transport
  • Part III: Quantum Transport in Bulk Semiconductors
  • The Density Matrix
  • Kubo Formula
  • The Wigner-Function Approach to Quantum Transport
  • Part IV: Semiclassical Transport in Semiconductor Structures
  • Part V: Quantum Transport in Semiconductor Structures
  • Part VI: Advanced Theory of Quantum Transport
  • Green Functions
  • Nonequilibrium Green Functions Applied to Transport.