CONTENIDO:
1. Elementary Properties of Semiconductors
2. Energy Band Structure
3. Semiconductor Statistics
4. Charge and Energy Transport in a Nondegenerate Electron Gas
5. Carrier Diffusion Processes
6. Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model
7. Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model
8. Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model
9. Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena
10. Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown
11. Optical Absorption and Reflection
12. Photoconductivity
13. Light Generation by Semiconductors
14. Surface and Interface Properties and the Quantum Hall Effect
15. Miscellaneous Semiconductors
Appendices
References
Subject index
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