Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering

Dr. Manijeh Razeghi is Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director, Center for Quantum Devices at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She earned the Docteur d'État ès Sciences Physiques, Université de Paris, Paris, France; a Docteur 3ème Cycle Solid State Physics, Université de Paris, Paris, France; and a DEA Science des Matériaux, Université de Paris, Paris, France. Her research interests include quantum devices, compound semiconductor science and nanotechnology, the physics of new semiconductor crystals for novel applications and realizing advanced semiconductor devices such as lasers, photodetectors, transistors, waveguides and switches.

• Electronic Structure of Atoms.- Introduction: the carbon atom.- Crystalline Properties of Solids.- Introduction to Quantum Mechanics.- Electrons and Energy Band Structures in Crystals.- Phonons and thermal properties.- Equilibrium Charge Carrier Statistics in Semiconductors.- Non-Equilibrium Electrical Properties of Semiconductors.- Semiconductor p-n and Metal-Semiconductor Junctions.- Optical Properties of Semiconductors.- Solar Energy Harvesting.- Thermal and Photothermal energy harvesting.- Photo-thermovoltaics.- Electron-Electron Interactions: Screening.- Semiconductor Heterostructures and Low-Dimensional Quantum Structures.- Quantum Transport.- Compound Semiconductors and Crystal Growth Techniques.- Semiconductor Characterization Techniques.- Defects.- Appendices.