Bonds and Bands in Semiconductors, 2nd Edition

This classic work on the basic chemistry and solid state physics of semiconducting materials is now updated and improved with new chapters on crystalline and amorphous semiconductors. Written by two of the world’s pioneering materials scientists in the development of semiconductors, this work offers in a single-volume an authoritative treatment for the learning and understanding of what makes perhaps the world’s most important engineered materials actually work.

Readers will find:

• The essential principles of chemical bonding, electron energy bands and their relationship to conductive and semi-conductive material behavior.
• Coverage on elastics and piezoelectric constants, lattice vibrations, charge densities, optical spectra, thermo-chemistry and other key elements of semiconductor behavior and function.
• New Chapters on crystalline semiconductor interfaces, amorphous semiconductors and crystalline/amorphous interfaces.

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition

Chapter 1 : Crystal Structures
Chapter 2 : Covalent and Ionic Bonds
Chapter 3 : Elastic and Piezoelectric Constants
Chapter 4 : Lattice Vibrations
Chapter 5 : Energy Bands
Chapter 6 : Pseudopotentials and Charge Densities
Chapter 7 : Fundamental Optical Spectra
Chapter 8 : Thermochemistry of Semiconductors
Chapter 9 : Impurities
Chapter 10 : Barriers, Junctions, and Devices
Chapter 11 : Crystalline Semiconductor Interfaces
Chapter 12 : Amorphous Semiconductors
Chapter 13 : Crystalline / Amorphous Interfaces

Author Index
Subject Index