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Semiconductor Statistics
International Series of Monographs on Semiconductors
1st Edition - January 1, 1962
Author: J. S. Blakemore
Editor: Heinz K. Henisch
eBook ISBN:9781483148946
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Semiconductor Statistics presents statistics aimed at complementing existing books on the relationships between carrier densities and transport effects. The book is divided into… Read more
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Semiconductor Statistics presents statistics aimed at complementing existing books on the relationships between carrier densities and transport effects. The book is divided into two parts. Part I provides introductory material on the electron theory of solids, and then discusses carrier statistics for semiconductors in thermal equilibrium. Of course a solid cannot be in true thermodynamic equilibrium if any electrical current is passed; but when currents are reasonably small the distribution function is but little perturbed, and the carrier distribution for such a ""quasi-equilibrium"" condition is inappreciably different from that of thermal equilibrium itself. Thus the results of Part I are not invalidated when the properties of a semiconductor are measured using small current densities. Part II considers non-equilibrium statistics for semiconductors with appreciable excess carrier densities. The various kinds of recombination mechanism are examined, and the consequences discussed for steady state and transient situations. The subject matter of this book was deliberately restricted in scope in order to be of maximum value to scientists with an active interest in the basic properties of semiconducting materials.
Preface
Part I. Semiconductors in Thermal Equilibrium
Chapter 1. Basic Concepts in the Electron Theory of Solids
1.1 Classical Theories of Metallic Conduction
1.2 Quantum Statistics and the Free Electron Theory
1.3 The Band Theory of Solids
1.4 The Effective Mass of Charge Carriers
1.5 Band Shapes for Some Representative Semiconductors
1.6 Some Varieties of Impurity Center (Flaw)
Chapter 2. The Fermi Level—electron Density Equilibrium
2.1 The Fermi-Dirac Integrals
2.2 Interrelation of Free Electron Density and Fermi Level
2.3 Intrinsic Semiconductors
2.4 The Product nopo and ö for Intrinsic and Extrinsic Situations
2.5 Spatial Fluctuations of Carrier Density
Chapter 3. Semiconductors Dominated by impurity levels
3.1 Occupancy Factor for Impurity Levels
3.2 Semiconductors Controlled by a Single Monovalent Donor Species
3.3 Semiconductors Dominated by Several Localized Levels
3.4 The Influence of Lattice Defects
3.5 Impurity Bands and the Behavior of an Impurity Metal
Part II. Semiconductors Containing Excess Carriers