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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTORS
- 2 SEMICONDUCTOR BANDSTRUCTURE
- 3 BANDSTRUCTURE MODIFICATIONS
- 4 TRANSPORT: GENERAL FORMALISM
- 5 DEFECT AND CARRIER–CARRIER SCATTERING
- 6 LATTICE VIBRATIONS: PHONON SCATTERING
- 7 VELOCITY-FIELD RELATIONS IN SEMICONDUCTORS
- 8 COHERENCE, DISORDER, AND MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS
- 9 OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTORS
- 10 EXCITONIC EFFECTS AND MODULATION OF OPTICAL PROPERTIES
- 11 SEMICONDUCTORS IN MAGNETIC FIELDS
- A STRAIN IN SEMICONDUCTORS
- B EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES
- C QUANTUM MECHANICS: USEFUL CONCEPTS
- D IMPORTANT PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTORS
- INDEX
D - IMPORTANT PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTORS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTORS
- 2 SEMICONDUCTOR BANDSTRUCTURE
- 3 BANDSTRUCTURE MODIFICATIONS
- 4 TRANSPORT: GENERAL FORMALISM
- 5 DEFECT AND CARRIER–CARRIER SCATTERING
- 6 LATTICE VIBRATIONS: PHONON SCATTERING
- 7 VELOCITY-FIELD RELATIONS IN SEMICONDUCTORS
- 8 COHERENCE, DISORDER, AND MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS
- 9 OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTORS
- 10 EXCITONIC EFFECTS AND MODULATION OF OPTICAL PROPERTIES
- 11 SEMICONDUCTORS IN MAGNETIC FIELDS
- A STRAIN IN SEMICONDUCTORS
- B EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES
- C QUANTUM MECHANICS: USEFUL CONCEPTS
- D IMPORTANT PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTORS
- INDEX
Summary
The data and plots shown in this Appendix are extracted from a number of sources. A list of useful sources is given below. Note that impact ionization coefficient and Auger coefficients of many materials are not known exactly.
S. Adachi, J. Appl. Phys., 58, R1 (1985).
H.C. Casey, Jr. and M.B. Panish, Heterostructure Lasers, Part A, “Fundamental Principles;” Part B, “Materials and Operating Characteristics,” Academic Press, N.Y. (1978).
Landolt-Bornstein, Numerical Data and Functional Relationship in Science and Technology, Vol. 22, Eds. O. Madelung, M. Schulz, and H. Weiss, Springer-Verlog, N.Y. (1987). Other volumes in this series are also very useful.
S.M. Sze, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Wiley, N.Y. (1981). This is an excellent source of a variety of useful information on semiconductors.
“World Wide Web;” A huge collection of data can be found on the Web. Several professors and industrial scientists have placed very useful information on their websites.
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