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100 1 _aFerry, David K.,
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245 1 0 _aHot carriers in semiconductors /
_cDavid K. Ferry.
264 1 _aBristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
_bIOP Publishing,
_c[2021]
300 _a1 online resource (various pagings) :
_billustrations (some color).
336 _atext
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337 _aelectronic
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _a[IOP release $release]
490 1 _aIOP ebooks. [2021 collection]
500 _a"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _a1. Introduction -- 1.1. Some general observations -- 1.2. Optically excited hot carriers -- 1.3. Hot carriers in devices -- 1.4. What is in this book
505 8 _a2. High electric field transport -- 2.1. Velocity and mobility -- 2.2. Transient transport -- 2.3. Inter-valley scattering -- 2.4. Impact ionization and breakdown -- 2.5. Microwave studies -- 2.6. Ballistic devices -- 2.7. Real-space transfer
505 8 _a3. Carrier heating at low temperature -- 3.1. Early work -- 3.2. Phase-breaking -- 3.3. Energy relaxation time -- 3.4. Effects in lower dimensions -- 3.5. Some different systems -- 3.6. Magnetophonon resonance
505 8 _a4. Optical carrier heating -- 4.1. Oscillatory photoconductivity -- 4.2. Free-carrier optics -- 4.3. Optical absorption -- 4.4. Ultrafast excitation studies -- 4.5. Real-space transfer
505 8 _a5. Nonequilibrium phonons -- 5.1. The nature of the problem -- 5.2. Acoustic spectroscopy -- 5.3. Measuring the nonequilibrium phonons -- 5.4. Rise and fall of the phonons -- 5.5. Measuring the lifetime
505 8 _a6. Seeking the distribution function -- 6.1. The relaxation time approximation -- 6.2. Expanding in Legendre polynomials -- 6.3. The drifted Maxwellian distribution -- 6.4. The energy diffusion equations -- 6.5. Low-dimensional systems -- 6.6. Plasmon interactions
505 8 _a7. The ensemble Monte Carlo method -- 7.1. The path integral -- 7.2. The Monte Carlo process -- 7.3. Building a code -- 7.4. Molecular dynamics and Poisson -- 7.5. Real-space transfer -- 7.6. Full band Monte Carlo -- 7.7. Monte Carlo in device simulation
505 8 _a8. Quantum transport -- 8.1. Modes and the Landauer formula -- 8.2. Transport with the Schr�odinger equation -- 8.3. The density matrix -- 8.4. Nonequilibrium Green's functions -- 8.5. Wigner functions -- 8.6. Some final comments.
520 3 _aThis research and reference text provides up-to-date coverage of the latest research on hot carriers in semiconductors, with a focus on the background, theoretical approaches, measurements and physical understanding required to engage with the field.
521 _aResearchers and graduate students in the area of materials or electronic engineering, particularly those working with photovoltaics.
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.
545 _aDavid K. Ferry is Regents' Professor Emeritus in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He was also graduate faculty in the Department of Physics and the Materials Science and Engineering program at ASU, as well as Visiting Professor at Chiba University in Japan.
588 0 _aTitle from PDF title page (viewed on January 18, 2022).
650 0 _aHot carriers.
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650 0 _aSemiconductors.
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650 7 _aElectronic devices & materials.
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650 7 _aMaterials.
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710 2 _aInstitute of Physics (Great Britain),
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830 0 _aIOP (Series).
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856 4 0 _uhttps://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-3947-6
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