Solid State Properties From Bulk to Nano /

• Main Authors: Dresselhaus, Mildred (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Dresselhaus, Gene (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Cronin, Stephen B. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Gomes Souza Filho, Antonio (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Solid state physics.; Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Low temperature physics.; Low temperatures.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Nanotechnology.; Solid State Physics.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Low Temperature Physics.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.

This book fills a gap between many of the basic solid state physics and materials science books that are currently available. It is written for a mixed audience of electrical engineering and applied physics students who have some knowledge of elementary undergraduate quantum mechanics and statistica...

Table of Contents:

• Crystal Lattices in Real and Reciprocal Space
• Electronic Properties of Solids
• Weak and Tight Binding Approximations for Simple Solid State Models
• Examples of Energy Bands in Solids
• Effective Mass Theory
• Lattice Vibrations
• Basic Transport Phenomena
• Thermal Transport
• Electron and Phonon Scattering
• Magneto-transport Phenomena
• Transport in Low Dimensional Systems
• Two Dimensional Electron Gas, Quantum Wells & Semiconductor Superlattices
• Magneto-Oscillatory and Other Effects Associated with Landau Levels
• The Quantum Hall Effect (QHE)
• Review of Fundamental Relations for Optical Phenomena
• Drude Theory-Free Carrier Contribution to the Optical Properties
• Interband Transitions
• Absorption of Light in Solids
• Optical Properties of Solids Over a Wide Frequency Range
• Impurities and Excitons
• Luminescence and Photoconductivity
• Optical Study of Lattice Vibrations.