Miscellaneous Semiconductors
Superconductivity, which is normally observed in metals at temperatures below a transition temperature Tc ≲ 21 K may also occur in degenerate semiconductors where T is below 0.5 K. The effect has been predicted by Gurevich, Larkin, and Firsov [1] in 1962
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Preface This book has been designed primarily as a text book for a three-semester, three· hour per week senior or graduate course in semiconductor physics for students In electrical engineering and physics, It may be supplemented by a solid state phy .. ics course. Prerequisites are courses in electrodynamics and - for some of the chapters - basic quantum mechanics. Emphasis has been laid on physical rather than technological aspects. Semiconductor physics is in fact an excellent and d... · manding training ground for a future physicist or electrical engineer givina him an opportunity to practice a large variety of physical laws he was introduced to in the more fundamental courses. A detailed treatment of the transport and optical properties of semiconducton is given. It was decided to omit the usual description of the material propertkl of certain semiconductors and instead to include the "in· between" equations In mathematical derivations which I hope will make life simpler for a non·theorell· ciano In view of the many thousands of papers which appear every y... ar in th ... field of semiconductor physics and which are distributed amona more than 30 journals, it would have been impossible for a single person to writ .... comprehen· sive book unless there had not been some excellent review art ides on speCial topics published in the series "Solid State Physics", "FestkOrper·Probleme! Ad· vances in Solid State Physics", "Semiconductors and Semimetals". and "Proareu in Semiconductors", and I have leaned heavily on such review articles. All equations are written in MKS rationalized units, although numerical exam· pies are given in units of cm instead of m and in units of g instead of ka U It II normal practice in semiconductor physics. It is certainly very important for a student to be able to occasionally check the theoretical treatment of a problem by performing a dimensional analysis which is much simpler in the MKS system than in the cgs system. I hope the theoreticians among my readers will fora ive me for breaking with their tradition. The book has been set on an IBM 72 Composer which proved to be quite satISfactory. However, I would like to draw the attention of the reader to a point which arises from the design of the founts: the letter I very closely resemblel
