Quantum Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of SemiconductorsThis invaluable textbook presents the basic elements needed to understand and research into semiconductor physics. It deals with elementary excitations in bulk and low-dimensional semiconductors, including quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots. The basic principles underlying optical nonlinearities are developed, including excitonic and many-body plasma effects. Fundamentals of optical bistability, semiconductor lasers, femtosecond excitation, the optical Stark effect, the semiconductor photon echo, magneto-optic effects, as well as bulk and quantum-confined Franz-Keldysh effects, are covered. The material is presented in sufficient detail for graduate students and researchers with a general background in quantum mechanics. |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Atoms in a Classical Light Field | 17 |
Periodic Lattice of Atoms | 29 |
Mesoscopic Semiconductor Structures | 53 |
5 | 61 |
29 | 71 |
53 | 78 |
Ideal Quantum Gases | 81 |
Excitonic Optical Stark Effect | 235 |
WaveMixing Spectroscopy | 269 |
Optical Properties of a QuasiEquilibrium Electron | 283 |
Optical Bistability | 305 |
Semiconductor Laser | 321 |
Electroabsorption | 349 |
MagnetoOptics | 371 |
Quantum Dots | 383 |
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Quantum Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors Hartmut Haug,Stephan W. Koch No preview available - 2004 |
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