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Introduction to Nanomaterials and Devices

Name: Introduction to Nanomaterials and Devices
Author: Omar Manasreh
ISBN: 9780470927076

by Omar Manasreh

December 2011

Beginner

488 pages

13h 52m

English

Wiley-Interscience

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication Page
Preface
Fundamental Constants
Chapter 1: Growth of Bulk, Thin Films, and Nanomaterials
1.1 Introduction1.2 Growth of Bulk Semiconductors1.3 Growth of Semiconductor Thin Films1.4 Fabrication and Growth of Semiconductor Nanomaterials1.5 Colloidal Growth of NanocrystalsBibliography
Chapter 2: Application of Quantum Mechanics to Nanomaterial Structures
2.1 Introduction2.2 The de Broglie Relation2.3 Wave Functions and Schrödinger Equation2.4 Dirac Notation2.5 Variational Method2.6 Stationary States of a Particle in a Potential Step2.7 Potential Barrier with a Finite Height2.8 Potential Well with an Infinite Depth2.9 Finite Depth Potential Well2.10 Unbound Motion of a Particle (E > V0) in a Potential Well With a Finite Depth2.11 Triangular Potential Well2.12 Delta Function Potentials2.13 Transmission in Finite Double Barrier Potential Wells2.14 Envelope Function Approximation2.15 Periodic Potential2.16 Effective MassBibliography
Chapter 3: Density of States in Semiconductor Materials
3.1 Introduction3.2 Distribution Functions3.3 Maxwell–Boltzmann Statistic3.4 Fermi–Dirac Statistics3.5 Bose–Einstein Statistics3.6 Density of States3.7 Density of States of Quantum Wells, Wires, and Dots3.8 Density of States of Other SystemsBibliography
Chapter 4: Optical Properties
4.1 Fundamentals4.2 Lorentz and Drude Models4.3 The Optical Absorption Coefficient of the Interband Transition in Direct Band Gap Semiconductors4.4 The Optical Absorption Coefficient of the Interband Transition in Indirect Band Gap Semiconductors4.5 The Optical Absorption Coefficient of the Interband Transition in Quantum Wells4.6 The Optical Absorption Coefficient of the Interband Transition in Type II Superlattices4.7 The Optical Absorption Coefficient of the Intersubband Transition in Multiple Quantum Wells4.8 The Optical Absorption Coefficient of the Intersubband Transition in GaN/AlGaN Multiple Quantum Wells4.9 Electronic Transitions in Multiple Quantum Dots4.10 Selection Rules4.11 Excitons4.12 Cyclotron Resonance4.13 Photoluminescence4.14 Basic Concepts of PhotoconductivityBibliography

Chapter 5: Electrical and Transport Properties
5.1 Introduction5.2 The Hall Effect5.3 Quantum Hall and Shubnikov- Haas Effects5.4 Charge Carrier Transport in Bulk Semiconductors5.5 Boltzmann Transport Equation5.6 Derivation of Transport Coefficients Using the Boltzmann Transport Equation5.7 Scattering Mechanisms in Bulk Semiconductors5.8 Scattering in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas5.9 Coherence and Mesoscopic SystemsBibliography
Chapter 6: Electronic Devices
6.1 Introduction6.2 Schottky Diode6.3 Metal–Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors (MESFETs)6.4 Junction Field-Effect Transistor (JFET)6.5 Heterojunction Field-Effect Transistors (HFETs)6.6 GaN/AlGaN Heterojunction Field-Effect Transistors (HFETs)6.7 Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBTs)6.8 Tunneling Electron Transistors6.9 The – Junction Tunneling Diode6.10 Resonant Tunneling Diodes6.11 Coulomb Blockade6.12 Single-Electron TransistorBibliography
Chapter 7: Optoelectronic Devices
7.1 Introduction7.2 Infrared Quantum Detectors7.3 Light-Emitting Diodes7.4 Semiconductor LasersBibliography
Appendix A: Derivation of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Appendix B: Perturbation
Bibliography
Appendix C: Angular Momentum
Appendix D: Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) Approximation
Bibliography
Appendix E: Parabolic Potential Well
Bibliography
Appendix F: Transmission Coefficient in Superlattices
Appendix G: Lattice Vibrations and Phonons
Appendix H: Tunneling Through Potential Barriers
Bibliography
Index

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INDEX

Airy function

Angular momentum

Anyons

Atomistic Nucleation Processes

Background limited infrared performance (BLIP)

Basic concepts of photoconductivity

Basic principles of lasers

Beer's law

BenDaniel–Duke boundary conditions

Bloch's theorem

Boltzmann transport equation

Bose–Einstein statistics

Bound exciton

Capillarity theory

Charge carrier transport in bulk semiconductors

Charging energy

Chemical vapor deposition

Coherence and mesoscopic systems

Colloidal growth of nanocrystals

Configuration coordinate

Continuity equation

Coulomb blockade

Crystal field

Cyclotron resonance

de Broglie relation

de Broglie wavelength

Deformation potential

Degeneracy

Delta function potentials

Density of states

Density of states in the presence of an electric field

Density of states in the presence of magnetic field

Density of states of other systems

Density of states of quantum wells, wires, and dots

Density of states of superlattices

Derivation of transport coefficients

Detectivity

Dielectric constant

Diffusion current density

Dirac notation

Dirac δ-function

Direct band gap semiconductors

Distinguishable objects

Distributed Bragg reflectors

Distribution functions

Dopant concentration

Drift current density

Effective mass

Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of an operator

Einstein relations

Electrical conductivity n-type semiconductors

Electrical mobility in n-type semiconductors

Electron–electron scattering

Electron–hole overlap

Electronic transitions in multiple quantum dots

Electron–photon coupling ...

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