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1 online resource (311 p.) |
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Textbook Series in Physical Sciences Ser |
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Textbook Series in Physical Sciences Ser
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Author -- PART I: Prerequisites: Quantum Mechanics and the Electronic States in Solids -- CHAPTER 1: Quantum Mechanics -- 1.1. THE TWO-SLIT EXPERIMENT -- 1.2. THE SCHROEDINGER EQUATION, WAVEFUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS -- 1.3. PARTICLE IN A RECTANGULAR BOX -- 1.4. MORE QUANTUM MECHANICS, HEISENBERG'S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE -- 1.5. STATISTICS OF ELECTRON OCCUPANCY, THE PAULI PRINCIPLE AND THE FERMI -- DIRAC DISTRIBUTION -- 1.6. THE HYDROGEN ATOM AND THE ATOMS OF THE PERIODIC TABLE |
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1.7. BARRIER PENETRATION, TUNNELLING -- 1.8. PROBABILITY CURRENT DENSITY AND THE WKB APPROXIMATION -- CHAPTER 2: Electron States in Solids -- 2.1. QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF SOLIDS AND THEIR ENERGY BANDS -- 2.2. THE k-SPACE, BLOCH'S THEOREM AND BRILLOUIN ZONES -- 2.3. THE LCAO METHOD OF CALCULATING ENERGY LEVELS -- 2.4. QUICK REVISION OF THE CONCEPT OF A HOLE AND DOPING -- 2.5. VELOCITY OF ELECTRONS IN SOLIDS -- 2.6. THE CONCEPT OF EFFECTIVE MASS -- 2.7. CONCENTRATION OF CARRIERS IN SEMICONDUCTORS AND METALS -- 2.8. THE EFFECTIVE MASS EQUATION -- PART II: Theory of Conduction |
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CHAPTER 3: Simple Classical Theory of Conduction -- 3.1. EXTERNAL VOLTAGES AND FERMI LEVELS -- 3.2. COLLISIONS AND DRIFT MOBILITY -- 3.3. MECHANISMS OF SCATTERING -- 3.4. RECOMBINATION OF CARRIERS -- 3.5. DIFFUSION CURRENT -- 3.6. CONTINUITY EQUATIONS -- 3.7. THE IDEAL PN JUNCTION AT EQUILIBRIUM -- 3.8. THE IDEAL PN JUNCTION UNDER BIAS -- 3.9. THE NON-IDEAL, REAL PN JUNCTION -- 3.10. THE METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR OR SCHOTTKY JUNCTION -- CHAPTER 4: Advanced Classical Theory of Conduction -- 4.1. THE NEED FOR A BETTER CLASSICAL THEORY OF CONDUCTION -- 4.2. THE BOLTZMANN EQUATION |
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4.3. SOLUTION OF THE BOLTZMANN EQUATION BY THE RELAXATION TIME APPROXIMATION -- 4.4. APPLICATION OF AN ELECTRIC FIELD-CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS -- 4.5. DIFFUSION CURRENTS -- 4.6. GENERAL EXPRESSION FOR THE CURRENT DENSITY -- 4.7. APPLICATION OF A THERMAL GRADIENT, THE SEEBECK EFFECT -- 4.8. SATURATION OF DRIFT VELOCITY -- 4.9. GUNN EFFECT AND VELOCITY OVERSHOOT -- 4.10. THE (CLASSICAL) HALL EFFECT -- CHAPTER 5: The Quantum Theory of Conduction -- 5.1. CRITIQUE OF THE BOLTZMANN EQUATION, REGIMES OF CONDUCTION -- 5.2. ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS -- 5.3. THE LANDAUER FORMALISM |
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5.4. THE EFFECTIVE MASS EQUATION FOR HETEROSTRUCTURES -- 5.5. TRANSMISSION MATRICES, AIRY FUNCTIONS -- 5.6. THE RESONANT TUNNELLING DIODE OR RTD -- PART III: Devices -- CHAPTER 6: Field Emission and Vacuum Devices -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. THE 1-DIMENSIONAL WKB EQUATION -- 6.3. FIELD EMISSION FROM PLANAR SURFACES -- 6.4. THE 3-DIMENSIONAL WKB PROBLEM -- 6.5. FIELD EMISSION FROM CURVED SURFACES (ELECTRON GUNS) -- 6.6. THE VACUUM TRANSISTOR -- CHAPTER 7: The MOSFET -- 7.1. INTRODUCTION -- 7.2. PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION OF THE MOSFET -- 7.3. SIMPLE CLASSICAL THEORY -- 7.4. ADVANCED CLASSICAL THEORY |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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7.5. QUANTUM THEORY OF THE MOSFET |
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Electric conductivity.
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Nanoelectronics.
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Quantum theory.
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electrical conductivity.
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Electric conductivity.
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Nanoelectronics.
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Quantum theory.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429014345 |
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0429014341 |
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9780429014338 |
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0429014333 |
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9780429014321 |
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0429014325 |
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9780429506444 |
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0429506449 |
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