Low-dimensional semiconductors : materials, physics, technology, devices / M.J. Kelly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface Introduction 1. Resume of bulk semiconductor physics 2. III-V semiconductor homojunctions and heterojunctions 3. Fabrication technologies for semiconductor microstructures 4. Low dimensional physics 5. The two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) 6. The one dimensional electron gas (1DEG) 7. Hot electron phenomena 8. Tunnelling phenomena 9. Superlattices and minibands 10. Quantum wells and their optical properties 11. Quantum pillars and boxes: electronic and optical properties 12. Mesoscopic phenomena and coulomb blockade 13. Exotic materials combinations: new physics including strain 14. Silicon and silicon heterojunctions 15. Thermal, mechanical and other properties 16. Devices I: field effect and heterojunction bipolar transistors 17. Devices II: Microwave diodes 18. Devices III: lasers, modulators and detectors 19. Devices IV: infrared and solar devices 20. Amorphous semiconductor multilayers 21. Towards 2000 22. Radical alternatives Appendices