Semiconductor Optics and Transport Phenomena

From the reviews: "The rapid pace of discovery in semiconductor physics makes it difficult to initiate neophytes to the field ... With Semiconductor Optics and Transport Phenomena, Wilfried Schafer and Martin Wegener have come to the rescue ... The authors are important figures in semiconductor optics. Schafer has made definitive contributions to the theory of interacting electrons and collaborated with experimentalists to explain exciton dynamics under ultrafast optical excitation. Wegener is prominently known for his experimental exploration of the new world of exciton dynamics in the first few femtoseconds of their creation. The collaboration of a theorist and an experimentalist in this book fulfills the authors' intent to synthesize theory and empiricism. It is delightful to find that, after reading about the Bloch theory, one can understand the four-wave mixing experiment and measurements of the dephasing time ... The text covers basic electron properties, optics, and transport. The optics part provides important paradigms of decoherence and of nonequilibrium physics, both of which are essential to the modern physics of the small ... I recommend Schafer and Wegener's timely and pioneering text for a cohesive presentation of modern semiconductor physics." PHYSICS TODAY "The text covers basic electron properties, optics, and transport. ... The book also carefully describes such fundamentals as the gauge relation between the p . A and r . E expressions for light-matter interaction. ... I recommend Schafer and Wegener's timely and pioneering text for a cohesive presentation of modern semiconductor physics." (L. J. Sham, Physics Today, July, 2003) "The topics covered in the book include a good number of the important theoretical foundations of semiconductor optics and transport phenomena ... . If the reader is interested in the theory of optical and transport phenomena, this is an appropriate book." (Mike Gal, The Physicist, Vol. 39 (6), 2002)

• 1. Some Basic Facts on Semiconductors.- 2. Interaction of Matter and Electromagnetic Fields.- 3. One-Particle Properties.- 4. Uncorrelated Optical Transitions.- 5. Correlated Transitions of Bloch Electrons.- 6. Correlated Transitions near the Band Edge.- 7. Influence of Static Magnetic Fields.- 8. Influence of Static Electric Fields.- 9. Biexcitons.- 10. Nonequilibrium Green’s Functions.- 11. The Electron—Phonon Interaction.- 12. Scattering and Screening Processes.- 13. The Semiconductor Laser.- 14. Classical Transport.- 15. Electric Fields in Mesoscopic Systems.- 16. Electric and Magnetic Fields in Mesoscopic Systems.- References.