| | Foreword | | |
Ch. 1 | | Energy Spectrum of Charge Carriers in Semiconductors | | 1 |
1 | | Electron motion in ideal crystal lattice | | 1 |
2 | | Energy bands in solids, Brillouin zones | | 5 |
3 | | Energy band edge structure of some semiconductors. The main band models | | 10 |
Ch. 2 | | Statistics of Charge Carriers in Semiconductors | | 33 |
4 | | Electron concentration in conduction band and Fermi level, effective mass as function of concentration | | 33 |
5 | | Statistics of charge carriers in intrinsic semiconductors and semimetals | | 51 |
6 | | Statistics of charge carriers in extrinsic semiconductors | | 59 |
Ch. 3 | | Solution of Boltzmann Equation, Scattering Mechanisms | | 78 |
7 | | Phenomenological definition of kinetic coefficients and their interrelationship | | 78 |
8 | | Boltzmann equation and its applicability conditions | | 84 |
9 | | Solution of Boltzmann equation for arbitrary spherically symmetric band in relaxation time approximation | | 92 |
10 | | Charge carrier scattering in semiconductors with an arbitrary isotropic band, scattering by impurities | | 107 |
11 | | Charge carrier scattering by phonons in semiconductors with arbitrary isotropic band | | 121 |
12 | | Theory of charge carrier scattering in semiconductors using Bloch wave functions | | 151 |
Ch. 4 | | Electron Transport Phenomena in Semiconductors with Isotropic Band | | 168 |
13 | | General expressions of main kinetic coefficients | | 168 |
14 | | Transport phenomena in absence of magnetic field | | 175 |
15 | | Transport phenomena in magnetic field | | 195 |
16 | | Transport phenomena in semiconductors of p-Ge type | | 234 |
17 | | Charge carrier entrainment by phonons in semiconductors with arbitrary isotropic band | | 247 |
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