Theory of Optical Processes in Semiconductors: Bulk and Microstructures

by Prasanta Kumar Basu

Overview

At the heart of much current technology, including fiber-optic communications, optoelectronic devices outperform those based on conventional semiconductors and are likely to be essential in future computers. This book provides a basic understanding of the physical phenomena involved and is ideal for graduate students and engineers interested in designing new materials, devices and applications in optoelectronics. The book gives simple quantum mechanical explanations of important optical processes; it describes band-to-band, intersubband and excitonic absorption and recombination in bulk, quantum wells, wires, dots, superlattices and strained layers including electro-optic effects. It also covers the necessary background material in the classical theory of absorption, quantization of radiation, and band picture based on k-p perturbation. Prerequisites for the book are a knowledge of quantum mechanics and solid state theory. Each chapter concludes with a set of problems, some of which guide the reader to processes not covered in the text. Because it employs a simple one-electron theory throughout, the book is also accessible to advanced undergraduates in physics and engineering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198517887
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/05/1998
Series:	Series on Semiconductor Science and Technology , #4
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

University of Calcutta

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Classical theory of optical processes3. Photons4. Electron band structure and its modifications5. Interband and impurity absorptions6. Excitonic absorption7. Absorption and refraction in an electric field8. Interband magneto-optical effects9. Free carrier processes10. Recombination processes11. Introduction to two-dimensional systems12. Optical processes in quantum wells13. Excitons and impurities in quantum wells14. Optical processes in quantum wires and dots15. Superlattices16. Strained layers17. Effects of electric field on low-dimensional systemsIndex