Harrison P. Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots. Theoretical and Computational Physics of Semiconductor Nanostructures

Chichester: Wiley-Interscience, 2005. — 501 p.This book is aimed at providing all of the essential information, both theoretical and computational, in order that the reader can, starting from essentially nothing, understand how the electronic, optical and transport properties of semiconductor heterostructures are calculated. However, perhaps more importantly, starting from this low common denominator, this text is designed to lead the reader through a series of simple example theoretical and computational implementations, and slowly build from solid foundations, to a level where the reader can begin to initiate theoretical investigations or explanations of their own. I believe that there are two aspects to theoretical work, with the first being to analyse and interpret experimental data, while the second is to advance new ideas. My hope is that this book will certainly facilitate the former and I believe that I will at least provide the knowledge and skills base from which quantified predictions can be developed from the beginnings of an idea. I hope that this book will appeal to readers from outside the low dimensional semiconductor community. Some of the examples developed will certainly be relevant to the semiconductor community at large, while the microscopic calculations presented could be of interest to other areas of condensed matter, such as carbon nanostructures, high-temperature superconductors, etc.Acknowledgements
About the authorAbout the bookSemiconductors and heterostructures
Solutions to Schrodinger's equation
Numerical solutions
Diffusion
Impurities
Excitons
Strained quantum wells, V. D. Jovanovic
Quantum wires and dots
Carrier scattering
Multiband envelope function (k.p) method, Z. Ikonic
Empirical pseudopotential theory
Microscopic electronic properties of heterostructures
Application to quantum wires and dots
Concluding Remarks
Materials parametersTopic Index