1. Energy Band Structures of Semiconductors.- 2. Cyclotron Resonance and Energy Band Structures.- 3. Wannier Function and Effective Mass Approximation.- 4. Optical Properties 1.- 5. Optical Properties 2.- 6. Electron-Phonon Interaction and Electron Transport.- 7. Magnetotransport Phenomena.- 8. Quantum Structures.- Appendices.- A Delta Function and Fourier Transform.- A.1 Dirac Delta Function.- A.2 Cyclic Boundary Condition and Delta Function.- A.3 Fourier Transform.- B Uniaxial Stress and Strain Components in Cubic Crystals.- C Boson Operators.- D Random Phase Approximation and Rindhard Dielectric Function.- E Density Matrix.- References.
A detailed description of the basic physics of semiconductors. All the important equations describing the properties of these materials are derived without the help of other textbooks. The reader is assumed to have only a basic command of mathematics and some elementary semiconductor physics. The text covers a wide range of important semiconductor phenomena, from the simple to the advanced.