David K. Ferry – författare

This book describes Wigner functions and its applications in various fields of science where it has beenfound to be very useful in wide range of modern disciplines, including quantuminformation, coherent optics, and superconducting qubits.

This second edition discusses the importance of semiconductors along with their newest applications. The book introduces the field of semiconductors, before covering chapters on electronic structure, lattice dynamics, transport structures, optical properties and electron-electron interaction. The edition has been extensively updated with the addition of new chapters on statistics and optics, two expanded chapters on transport, and examples of the most recent applications of semiconductors. The book offers the deepest insight yet into the field of semiconductors, providing essential reading for graduate students and industry specialists.

Thisgraduate textbook introduces the physics and applications of transport inmesoscopic devices and nanoscale electronic systems and devices. This expandedsecond edition is fully updated and contains the latest research in the field,including nano-devices for qubits. Worked examples, problems, solutions andvideos are provided to enhance understanding.

This research and reference text provides up-to-date coverage of the latest research on hot carriers in semiconductors, with a focus on the background, theoretical approaches, measurements and physical understanding required to engage with the field. It equips researchers transitioning from optics to hot carrier solar cells to fully understand the role of hot carriers in semiconductors. Pitched at an introductory level, this is an essential reference text for researchers, a core text for graduate courses in hot carrier phenomena, and valuable supplementary reading for first year graduate courses in quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, solid-state electronics and photovoltaics.

Key Features:

Provides up-to-date coverage of hot carriers in semiconductors

Focuses on the background, theoretical approaches, measurements and understanding of the physics

Includes examples of experiments and applications of theoretical approaches

Fills a gap for a comprehensive and up-to-date book with modern interpretations of observed phenomena

Provides a comprehensive introduction for researchers, and acts as a core text for graduate courses in hot carrier phenomena

Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction for Device Physicists and Electrical Engineers, Third Edition provides a complete course in quantum mechanics for students of semiconductor device physics and electrical engineering. It provides the necessary background to quantum theory for those starting work on micro- and nanoelectronic structures and is particularly useful for those beginning work with modern semiconductors devices, lasers and qubits.

This book was developed from a course the author has taught for many years with a style and order of presentation of material specifically designed for this audience. It introduces the main concepts of quantum mechanics which are important in everyday solid-state physics and electronics. Each topic includes examples which have been carefully chosen to draw upon relevant experimental research. It also includes problems with solutions to test understanding of theory.

Full updated throughout, the third edition contains the latest developments, experiments, and device concepts, in addition to three fully revised chapters on operators and expectations and spin angular momentum, it contains completely new material on superconducting devices and approaches to quantum computing.

Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction for Device Physicists and Electrical Engineers, Third Edition provides a complete course in quantum mechanics for students of semiconductor device physics and electrical engineering. It provides the necessary background to quantum theory for those starting work on micro- and nanoelectronic structures and is particularly useful for those beginning work with modern semiconductors devices, lasers and qubits.

This book was developed from a course the author has taught for many years with a style and order of presentation of material specifically designed for this audience. It introduces the main concepts of quantum mechanics which are important in everyday solid-state physics and electronics. Each topic includes examples which have been carefully chosen to draw upon relevant experimental research. It also includes problems with solutions to test understanding of theory.

Full updated throughout, the third edition contains the latest developments, experiments, and device concepts, in addition to three fully revised chapters on operators and expectations and spin angular momentum, it contains completely new material on superconducting devices and approaches to quantum computing.

Throughout their college career, most engineering students have done problems and studies that are basically situated in the classical world. Some may have taken quantum mechanics as their chosen field of study. This book moves beyond the basics to highlight the full quantum mechanical nature of the transport of carriers through nanoelectronic structures. The book is unique in that addresses quantum transport only in the materials that are of interest to microelectronics—semiconductors, with their variable densities and effective masses.

The author develops Green’s functions starting from equilibrium Green’s functions and going through modern time-dependent approaches to non-equilibrium Green’s functions, introduces relativistic bands for graphene and topological insulators and discusses the quantum transport changes that these bands induce, and discusses applications such as weak localization and phase breaking processes, resonant tunneling diodes, single-electron tunneling, and entanglement. Furthermore, he also explains modern ensemble Monte Carlo approaches to simulation of various approaches to quantum transport and the hydrodynamic approaches to quantum transport. All in all, the book describes all approaches to quantum transport in semiconductors, thus becoming an essential textbook for advanced graduate students in electrical engineering or physics.