Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Semiconductors

Self-Organization Induced by Generation and Recombination Processes

AvEckehard Schöll

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

Semiconductors can exhibit electrical instabilities like current runaway, threshold switching, current filamentation, or oscillations, when they are driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium. This book presents a coherent theoretical des- cription of such cooperative phenomena induced by generation and recombination processes of charge carriers in semicon- ductors.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-11-20
Mått:170 x 244 x 18 mm
Vikt:568 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Springer Series in Synergetics
Antal sidor:313
Förlag:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN:9783642719295

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Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 1.1 Instabilities in Semiconductors.- 1.2 Phase Transition Analogies.- 2. Bistability of Homogeneous Steady States.- 2.1 One-Carrier Models.- 2.2 Two-Carrier Models.- 2.3 Excitonic Models.- 3. Small Fluctuations from the Homogeneous Steady State.- 3.1 Linear Modes of One-Carrier Models.- 3.2 Filamentary Instability.- 3.3 Domain Instability.- 3.4 Electromagnetic Modes.- 3.5 Oscillatory Instability.- 4. Stationary Transverse Spatial Structures.- 4.1 Plane Current Layers.- 4.2 Cylindrical Current Filaments.- 4.3 Influence of Boundaries.- 4.4 Filamentation in Two-Carrier Models.- 4.5 Multiple Filaments.- 5. Stability of Transverse Spatial Structures.- 5.1 Plane Current Layers.- 5.2 Cylindrical Current Filaments.- 5.3 Finite Boundary Conditions.- 5.4 Fluctuation-Induced Phase Transitions.- 6. Self-Sustained Oscillations and Chaos.- 6.1 Mechanisms for Oscillatory Behavior.- 6.2 Limit-Cycle Oscillations.- 6.3 Chaos.- References.