Device Physics of Narrow Gap Semiconductors

✍ Scribed by Junhao Chu, Arden Sher (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 515
• Series: Microdevices
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Narrow gap semiconductors obey the general rules of semiconductor science, but often exhibit extreme features of these rules because of the same properties that produce their narrow gaps. Consequently these materials provide sensitive tests of theory, and the opportunity for the design of innovative devices. Narrow gap semiconductors are the most important materials for the preparation of advanced modern infrared systems.

Device Physics of Narrow Gap Semiconductors offers descriptions of the materials science and device physics of these unique materials. Topics covered include impurities and defects, recombination mechanisms, surface and interface properties, and the properties of low dimensional systems for infrared applications. This book will help readers to understand not only the semiconductor physics and materials science, but also how they relate to advanced opto-electronic devices. The last chapter applies the understanding of device physics to photoconductive detectors, photovoltaic infrared detectors, super lattices and quantum wells, infrared lasers, and single photon infrared detectors.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Impurities and Defects....Pages 5-124
Recombination....Pages 125-201
Two-Dimensional Surface Electron Gas....Pages 203-281
Superlattice and Quantum Well....Pages 283-339
Devices Physics....Pages 341-488
Back Matter....Pages 489-506

✦ Subjects

Optical and Electronic Materials;Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Engineering, general;Characterization and Evaluation of Materials