Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots provides all the essential information, both theoretical and computational, to develop an understanding of the electronic, optical and transport properties of these semiconductor nanostructures. The book will lead the reader through comprehensive explanations and mathematical derivations to the point where they can design semiconductor nanostructures with the required electronic and optical properties for exploitation in these technologies.
This fully revised and updated 4th?edition features new sections that incorporate modern techniques and extensive new material including:
Properties of non-parabolic energy bands
Matrix solutions of the Poisson and Schr?dinger equations
Critical thickness of strained materials
Carrier scattering by interface roughness, alloy disorder and impurities
Density matrix transport modelling
Thermal modelling
1 Semiconductors and heterostructures
2 Solutions to Schr?dinger’s equation
3 Numerical solutions
4 Diffusion
5 Impurities
6 Excitons
7 Strained quantum wells
8 Simple models of quantum wires and dots
9 Quantum dots
10 Carrier scattering
11 Optical properties of quantum wells
12 Carrier transport
13 Optical waveguides
14 Multiband envelope function (k.p) method
15 Empirical pseudo-potential bandstructure
16 Pseudo-potential calculations of nanostructures
Concluding remarks
A Materials parameters
B Introduction to the simulation tools
B.1 Documentation and support
B.2 Installation and dependencies
B.3 Simulation programs
B.4 Introduction to scripting
B.5 Example calculations
Index
