Quantum Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors

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World Scientific, 2004 - Technology & Engineering - 453 pages
This 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.

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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

Interacting Electron
113
Plasmons and Plasma Screening
129
Excitons
163
Polaritons
193
Semiconductor Bloch Equations
211
Coulomb Quantum Kinetics
401
Appendix A Field Quantization
421
Appendix B ContourOrdered Greens Functions
435
Index
445
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