Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics
Basic Semiconductor Physics
Introduction
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Semionductors
Elemental and Compound Semiconductors
Band Structure and Effective mass
Density of States
The Fermi Distribution and quasi-Fermi levels
Junctions and Heterostructures
p-n junctions
quantum wells
Radiative and Non-Radiative Transitions
Absorption, Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission
The Einstein Coefficients and Population Inversion
Defect and Impurity Scattering
Auger Recombination
Edge Emitting Lasers
Laser Structure
Operation
F-P modes
Gain
Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers
Why VCSELs?
Structure
DBR reflectors
Mode Spectrum
Temperature Dependence
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