Theory of Electron Transport in Semiconductor Materials and Structures

This book describes in details the theory of the electron transport in the materials and structures at the basis of modern micro- and nano-electronics. It leads and accompanies the reader, through a step-by-step derivation of all calculations, from the basic laws of classical and quantum physics up [...]
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This book describes in details the theory of the electron transport in the materials and structures at the basis of modern micro- and nano-electronics. It leads and accompanies the reader, through a step-by-step derivation of all calculations, from the basic laws of classical and quantum physics up to the most modern theoretical techniques, such as nonequilibrium Green functions, to study transport properties of both semiconductor materials and modern low-dimensional and mesoscopic structures. TOC:Part I: Basic Concepts in Semiconductor Physics.- Survey of Classical Physics.- Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics.- Fundamentals of Statistical Physics.- Crystal Structures and Symmetries.- Phonons.- Bloch States and Band Theory.- Semiconductors.- Part II: Semiclassical Transport in Bulk Semiconductors.- Effective-Mass Theorems and Envelope Function.- Semiclassical Dynamics.- Electronic Interactions.- Boltzmann Equation.- Linear Transport.- Nonlinear Transport.- Monte Carlo Simulation of Bulk Electron Transport.- Part III: Quantum Transport in Bulk Semiconductors.- The Density Matrix.- Kubo Formula.- The Wigner-Function Approach to Quantum Transport.- Part IV: Semiclassical Transport in Semiconductor Structures.- Part V: Quantum Transport in Semiconductor Structures.- Part VI: Advanced Theory of Quantum Transport.- Green Functions.- Nonequilibrium Green Functions Applied to Transport