Description
Book SynopsisJesús A. del Alamois Donner Professor and Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also Director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at MIT. He obtained a Telecommunications Engineer degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Over the years, Prof. del Alamo has been involved in research on transistors and other electronic devices in a variety of material systems. He has worked on Si solar cells, Si bipolar junction transistors, Si metaloxidesemiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), SiGe heterostructure devices, GaAs pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (PHEMTs), InGaAs high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and MOSFETs, InGaSb HEMTs and MOSFETs, GaN HEMTs and MOSFETs, and more recently diamond MOSFETs. Prof. del Alamo tea
Table of Contents
Preface xv
About the Author xix
1 Electrons, Photons, and Phonons
1.1 Selected Concepts of Quantum Mechanics
1.1.1 The dual nature of the photon
1.1.2 The dual nature of the electron
1.1.3 Electrons in confined environments
1.2 Selected Concepts of Statistical Mechanics
1.2.1 Thermal motion and thermal energy
1.2.2 Thermal equilibrium
1.2.3 Electron statistics
1.3 Selected Concepts of Solid-State Physics
1.3.1 Bonds and bands
1.3.2 Metals, insulators, and semiconductors
1.3.3 Density of states
1.3.4 Lattice vibrations: phonons
1.4 Summary
1.5 Further reading
Problems
2 Carrier Statistics in Equilibrium
2.1 Conduction and Valence Bands; Bandgap; Holes
2.2 Intrinsic Semiconductor
2.3 Extrinsic Semiconductor
2.3.1 Donors and acceptors
2.3.2 Charge neutrality
2.3.3 Equilibrium carrier concentration in a doped semiconductor
2.4 Carrier Statistics in Equilibrium
2.4.1 Conduction and valence band density of states
2.4.2 Equilibrium electron concentration
2.4.3 Equilibrium hole concentration
2.4.4 np product in equilibrium
2.4.5 Location of Fermi level
2.5 Summary
2.6 Further Reading
Problems
3 Carrier Generation and Recombination
3.1 Generation and Recombination Mechanisms
3.2 Thermal Equilibrium: Principle of Detailed Balance
3.3 Generation and Recombination Rates in Thermal Equilibrium
3.3.1 Band-to-band optical generation and recombination
3.3.2 Auger generation and recombination
3.3.3 Trap-assisted thermal generation
