Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model
The valence bands of germanium, silicon and the III–V compounds have an extremum at k = 0 and are degenerate there. The constant-energy surfaces for this case are warped spheres which have already been discussed in Sect. 2.4 (Figs. 2.28a–2.28c). In the zi
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Karlheinz Seeger
Semiconductor Physics An Introduction
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Preface This book, now in its ninth edition, still has the character of a textbook with the emphasis on "Physics". The volume has increased somewhat because several improvements have been made and some new items have been included. In Sect. 13.2 the new Quantum Cascade Laser which covers the far infrared spectral range has been added. In Sect. 14.4 the theory of the quantum Hall effect is now based on ballistic transport which in a more general respect without referring to the then still unknown quantum Hall effect was considered already by Rudolf Peierls. In the same chapter, the recent discovery of a low-temperature resistance oscillation in a very pure semiconductor under the influence of combined dc and ac electric fields in addition to a magnetic field is presented.
