Nanotechnology for Microelectronics and Optoelectronics

Chapter 1: Mesoscopic Physics and Nanotechnologies

1.1 OUTLOOK OF THE BOOK

1.2 TRENDS IN NANOELECTRONICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS

1.3 CHARACTERISTIC LENGTHS IN MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS

1.4 QUANTUM MECHANICAL COHERENCE

1.5 QUANTUM WELLS, WIRES, AND DOTS

1.6 DENSITY OF STATES AND DIMENSIONALITY

1.7 SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURES

1.8 QUANTUM TRANSPORT

PROBLEMS

Chapter 2: Survey of Solid State Physics

2.1 INTRODUCTION

2.2 SHORT REVIEW OF QUANTUM MECHANICS

2.3 FREE ELECTRON MODEL OF A SOLID. DENSITY OF STATES FUNCTION

2.4 BLOCH THEOREM

2.5 ELECTRONS IN CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS

2.6 DYNAMICS OF ELECTRONS IN BANDS

2.7 LATTICE VIBRATIONS

2.8 PHONONS

PROBLEMS

Chapter 3: Review of Semiconductor Physics

3.1 INTRODUCTION

3.2 ENERGY BANDS IN TYPICAL SEMICONDUCTORS

3.3 INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC SEMICONDUCTORS

3.4 ELECTRON AND HOLE CONCENTRATIONS IN SEMICONDUCTORS

3.5 ELEMENTARY TRANSPORT IN SEMICONDUCTORS

3.6 DEGENERATE SEMICONDUCTORS

3.7 OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTORS

PROBLEMS

Chapter 4: The Physics of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors

4.1 INTRODUCTION

4.2 BASIC PROPERTIES OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES

4.3 SQUARE QUANTUM WELL OF FINITE DEPTH

4.4 PARABOLIC AND TRIANGULAR QUANTUM WELLS

4.5 QUANTUM WIRES

4.6 QUANTUM DOTS

4.7 STRAINED LAYERS

4.8 EFFECT OF STRAIN ON VALENCE BANDS

4.9 BAND STRUCTURE IN QUANTUM WELLS

4.10 EXCITONIC EFFECTS IN QUANTUM WELLS

PROBLEMS

Chapter 5: Semiconductor Quantum Nanostructures and Superlattices

5.1 INTRODUCTION

5.2 MOSFET STRUCTURES

5.3 HETEROJUNCTIONS

5.4 QUANTUM WELLS

5.5 SUPERLATTICES

PROBLEMS

Chapter 6: Electric Field Transport in Nanostructures

6.1 INTRODUCTION

6.2 PARALLEL TRANSPORT

6.3 PERPENDICULAR TRANSPORT

6.4 QUANTUM TRANSPORT IN NANOSTRUCTURES

PROBLEMS

Chapter 7: Transport in Magnetic Fields and the Quantum Hall Effect

7.1 INTRODUCTION

7.2 EFFECT OF A MAGNETIC FIELD ON A CRYSTAL

7.3 LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS IN MAGNETIC FIELDS

7.4 DENSITY OF STATES OF A 2D SYSTEM IN A MAGNETIC FIELD

7.5 THE AHARONOV–BOHM EFFECT

7.6 THE SHUBNIKOV–DE HAAS EFFECT

7.7 THE QUANTUM HALL EFFECT

PROBLEMS

Chapter 8: Optical and Electro-optical Processes in Quantum Heterostructures

8.1 INTRODUCTION

8.2 OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF QUANTUM WELLS AND SUPERLATTICES

8.3 OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF QUANTUM DOTS AND NANOCRYSTALS

8.4 ELECTRO-OPTICAL EFFECTS IN QUANTUM WELLS. QUANTUM CONFINED STARK EFFECT

8.5 ELECTRO-OPTICAL EFFECTS IN SUPERLATTICES. STARK LADDERS AND BLOCH OSCILLATIONS

PROBLEMS

Chapter 9: Electronic Devices Based on Nanostructures

9.1 INTRODUCTION

9.2 MODFETs

9.3 HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS

9.4 RESONANT TUNNEL EFFECT

9.5 HOT ELECTRON TRANSISTORS

9.6 RESONANT TUNNELLING TRANSISTOR

9.7 SINGLE ELECTRON TRANSISTOR

PROBLEMS

Chapter 10: Optoelectronic Devices Based on Nanostructures

10.1 INTRODUCTION

10.2 HETEROSTRUCTURE SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS

10.3 QUANTUM WELL SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS

10.4 VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS (VCSELs)

10.5 STRAINED QUANTUM WELL LASERS

10.6 QUANTUM DOT LASERS

10.7 QUANTUM WELL AND SUPERLATTICE PHOTODETECTORS

10.8 QUANTUM WELL MODULATORS

PROBLEMS

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