Semiconductor heterojunctions and nanostructures

Author(s): Omar Manasreh

Series: Nanoscience and Technology

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Year: 2005

This comprehensive text is aimed at graduate level students and researchers, breaking down the complexities of fabrication, use, and maintenance of heterojunctions. Topics include: introduction to quantum mechanics, Potential barriers and wells, electronic energy levels in periodic potentials, tunneling through potential barriers, distribution functions and density of states, optical properties of interband and intersubband transitions, electrical properties, techniques and measurements, growth issues, devices: Detectors and emitters.