Band Structure of Semiconductors

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First edition. Translation of: Zonnai︠a︡ struktura poluprovodnikov. Band Structure of Semiconductors provides a review of the theoretical and experimental methods of investigating band structure and an analysis of the results of the developments in this field. The book presents the problems, methods, and applications in the study of band structure. Topics on the computational methods of band structure; band structures of important semiconducting materials; behavior of an electron in a perturbed periodic field; effective masses and g-factors for the most commonly encountered band structures; and the treatment of cyclotron resonance, Shubnikov-de Haas oscillatio. Front Cover; Band Structure of Semiconductors; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Methods of Calculating Band Structure; 1.1 GENERAL DISCUSSION; 1.2 THE LCAO METHOD (TIGHT-BINDING) ENERGY BANDS, ARISING FROM THE s-STATE OF THE ATOM; 1.3 THE AUGMENTED PLANE WAVE (APW) METHOD AND THE GREEN'S FUNCTION (KKR) METHOD; 1.4 THE ORTHOGONALIZED PLANE WAVE (OPW) METHOD AND THE PSEUDOPOTENTIAL METHOD; 1.5 THE k.p METHOD; Chapter 2. Band Structure of Important Semiconductors; 2.1 SEMICONDUCTORS WITH DIAMOND STRUCTURE; 2.2 SEMICONDUCTORS WITH ZINC BLENDE STRUCTURE 2.3 GAPLESS SEMICONDUCTORS2.4 LEAD CHALCOGENIDES; 2.5 TELLURIUM AND SELENIUM; Chapter 3. Electron in a Perturbed Periodic Field; 3.1 EFFECTIVE MASS APPROXIMATION; 3.2 QUASI-CLASSICAL DYNAMICS; 3.3 DYNAMICS OF AN ELECTRON WITH AN ARBITRARY DISPERSION RELATION; 3.4 DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF ELECTRONS AND HOLES; Chapter 4. Effective Masses for Actual Band Structures; 4.1 PARABOLIC ANISOTROPIC BAND (ELLIPSOIDAL CONSTANT ENERGY SURFACES); 4.2 PARABOLIC ANIS0TR0PIC BAND (WARPED CONSTANT ENERGY SURFACES); 4.3 NON-PARABOLIC ISOTROPIC BAND 4.4 BAND PARAMETERS FOR ZINC BLENDE STRUCTURE CONSIDERING PERTURBATION DUE TO REMOTE BANDSChapter 5. Experimental Methods of Investigating Band Structure; 5.1 CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; 5.2 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA; 5.3 OSCILLATORY PHENOMENA; 5.4 OPTICAL PHENOMENA; 5.5 MAGNETO-OPTICAL PHENOMENA; References; Index