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Semiconductor optics / Claus Klingshirn
- Author
- Klingshirn, C. F. (Claus F.), 1944-
- Published
- Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2007]
- Copyright Date
- ©2007
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Physical Description
- xxvii, 809 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents
- MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS, PHOTONS AND THE DENSITY OF STATES: Maxwell's equations -- Electromagnetic radiation in Vacuum -- Electromagnetic radiation in matter; linear optics -- Transverse, longitudinal and surface waves -- Photons and some aspects of quantum mechanics and of dispersion relations -- Density of states and occupation probabilities -- INTERACTION OF LIGHT WITH MATTER: Macroscopic aspects for solids -- Microscopic aspects -- ENSEMBLE OF UNCOUPLED OSCILLATORS: Equations of motion and the dielectric function -- Corrections due to quantum mechanics and local fields -- Spectra of the dielectric function and of the complex index refraction -- The spectra of reflection and transmission -- Interaction of close lying resonances -- THE CONCEPT OF POLARITONS: Polaritons as new quasiparticles -- Dispersion relation of polaritons -- Polaritons in solids, liquids and gases and from the IR to the X-ray region -- Coupled oscillators and polaritons with spatial dispersion -- Real and imaginary parts of wave vector and frequency -- Surface polaritons -- KRAMERS-KRONIG RELATIONS: General concepts -- CRYSTAL, LATTICES, LATTICE VIBRATIONS AND PHONONS: Adiabatic approximation -- Lattice and crystal structures in real and reciprocal space -- Vibrations of a string -- Linear chains -- Three dimensional crystals -- Quantization of lattice vibrations: phonons and the concept of quasiparticles -- The density of states and phonon statistics -- Phonons in alloys -- Defects and localized phonon modes -- Phonons in superlattices and in other structures of reduced dimensionality --, ELECTRONS IN A PERIODIC CRYSTAL: Bloch's theorem -- Metals, semiconductors, insulators -- An overview of semiconducting materials -- Electrons and holes in crystals as new quasiparticles -- The effective-mass concept -- The polaron concept and other electron-phonon interaction processes -- Some basic approaches to band structures calculations -- Bandstructures of real semiconductors -- Density of states, occupation probability and critical points -- Electrons and holes in quantum wells and superlattices -- Growth of quantum wells and spuperlattices -- Quantum wires -- Quantum dots -- Defects, defect states and doping -- Disordered systems and localization -- EXCITONS, BIEXITONS AND TRIONS: Wannier and Frenkle excitons -- Corrections to the simple exciton model -- The influence of dimensionality -- Biexcitons and trions -- Bound exciton complexes -- Excitons in disordered systems -- PLASMONS, MAGNONS AND SOME FURTHER ELEMENTARY EXCITATIONS: Plasmons, pair excitations and plasmon-phonon mixed states -- Magnons and magnetic polarons -- OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF PHONONS: Phonons in bulk semiconductors -- Phonons in supperlattices -- Phonons in quantum dots -- OPRICAL PROPERTIES OF PLASMONS, PLASMON-PHONON MIXED STATES AND OF MAGNONS: Surface plasmons -- Plasmon-phonon mixed states -- Plasmons in systems of reduced dimensionality -- Optical properties of magnons --, OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF INTRINSIC EXCITONS IN BULK SEMICONDUTORS: Excitons with strong oscillator strength -- Forbidden exciton transitions -- Intraexcitonic transitions -- OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF BOUND AND LOCALIZED EXVITONS AND OF DEFECT STATES: Bound-exciton and multi-exciton complexes -- Donor-acceptor pairs and related transitions -- Internal transitions and deep centers -- Excitons in disordered systems -- OPRICAL PROPERTIES OF EXCITONS IN STRUCTURES OF REFUCED DIMENSIONALITY: Quantum wells -- Coupled quantum wells and superlattices -- Quantum wires -- Quantum dots -- EXCITONS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF EXTERNAL FIELDS: Magnetic fields -- Electric fields -- Strain fields -- FROM CAVITY POLARITONS TO PHOTONIC CRYSTALS: Cavity polaritons -- Photonic crystals and photonic band gap structures -- Photonic atoms, molecules and crystals -- Further developments of photonic crystals -- A few words about metamaterials -- REVIEW OF THE LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES: Review of the linear optical properties -- HIGH EXCITATION EFFECTS AND NONLINEAR OPTICS: General scenario for high excitation effects -- Beyond the X(n) approximations -- THE INTERMEDIATE DENSITY REGIME: Two-photon absorption by excitons -- Elastic and inelastic scattering processes -- Biexcitons and trions -- Optical or ac stark effect -- Excitonic bose-einstein condensation -- Photo-thermal optical nonlinearities --, and THE ELECTRON-HOLE PLASMA: The Mott density -- Band gap renormalization and phase diagram -- Electron-hole plasmas in bulk semiconductors -- Electron-hole plasma in structures of reduced dimesionality -- Inter-subband transition in unipolar and bipolar plasmas -- STIMUALTED EMISSION AND LASER PROCESSES: Excitonic processes -- Electron-hole plasmas -- Basic concepts of laser diodes and present research trends -- TIME RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY: The basic time constants -- Deoherence and phase relazation -- Intra-subband and inter-subband relaxation -- Interband recombination -- OPTICAL BISTABILITY, OPTICAL COMPUTING, SPINTRONICS AND QUANTUM COMPUTING: Optical bistability -- Device ideas, digital optical computing and why it failed -- Spintronics -- Quantum computing -- EXPERIMENTAL METHODS: Linear optical spectroscopy -- Nonlinear optical spectroscipy -- Time-resolved spectroscopy -- Sparially resolved spectroscopy -- Spectroscopy under the influence of external fields -- GROUP THEORY IN SEMICONDUCTOR OPRICS: Some aspects of abstract group theory for crystals -- Theory of representations and of characters -- Hamilton operator and group theory -- Applications to semiconductors optics -- Some elected group tables -- SEMICONDUTOR BLOC EQUATIONS: Dynamics of a two-level system -- Optical Bloch equations -- Semiconductor Bloch equations -- Coherent processes.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 354038345X (acid-free paper)
9783540383451 (acid-free paper) - Note
- The 2nd ed. published in 2005 was part of the series: Advanced texts in Physics.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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