Physical Foundations of Solid State Devices
This note covers the following topics: Classical mechanics
and the advent of quantum mechanics, The postulates of quantum mechanics,
Position and momentum space, Operators, The Heisenberg uncertainty principle,
The Schrodinger equation, Applications of the Schrodinger equation in
nonperiodic structures and periodic structures, Approximate solutions of the
Schrodinger equations, Time independent and dependent perturbation theory,
Density of states, Classical and quantum statistics, Carrier concentrations,
Impurities in semiconductors, High doping effects, Heterostructures, Tunneling
structures, Electronic transport and selectively doped heterostructures.
Author(s): E F Schubert, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
273 Pages