Electronic States in Crystals of Finite Size Quantum Confinement of Bloch Waves /

• Main Author: Ren, Shang Yuan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2017.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 270
• Subjects: Physics.; Acoustics.; Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Materials > Surfaces.; Thin films.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.; Crystallography and Scattering Methods.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Classical Electrodynamics.

This book presents an analytical theory of the electronic states in ideal low dimensional systems and finite crystals based on a differential equation theory approach. It provides precise and fundamental understandings on the electronic states in ideal low-dimensional systems and finite crystals, an...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Why a Theory of Electronic States in Crystals of Finite Size is Needed
• Introduction
• Part II One-Dimensional Semi-infinite Crystals and Finite Crystals
• The Periodic Sturm-Liouville Equations
• Surface States in One-Dimensional Semi-infinite Crystals
• Electronic States in Ideal One-Dimensional Crystals of Finite Length
• Part III Low-Dimensional Systems and Finite Crystals
• Electronic States in Ideal Quantum Films
• Electronic States in Ideal Quantum Wires
• Electronic States in Ideal Finite Crystals or Quantum Dots
• Part IV Epilogue
• Concluding Remarks
•  Appendices.