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  3. Rate Equations in Semiconductor Electronics
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2009
Print publication year:
1986
Online ISBN:
9780511622489
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511622489
Subjects:
Physics and Astronomy, Condensed Matter Physics, Nanoscience and Mesoscopic Physics, Engineering, Electronic, Optoelectronic Devices, and Nanotechnology
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Book description

This book presents a novel approach to the teaching of dynamic aspects of the operation of semiconductor and opto-electronic devices. Such dynamic aspects often determine the steady state conditions. Also, the dynamical operation of such devices is of increasing importance as modern methods of communicating data and information require electronic devices that switch electrical or optical signals at ever faster rates. The author discusses the rates at which electrons and holes can reach equilibrium, the rates at which transistors and diodes can switch, and the rates at which electrons and holes can interact with photons, and with protons. He also applies the rate equations in a unified way to models of light-emitting diodes, injection lasers and photodiodes. Finally, the author discusses more-advanced topics on the photon statistics of injection lasers, mode-locking and the application of rate equations and Maxwell's equations to opto-electronic devices.

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"Anyone interested in the dynamics of semiconductor devices will find Professor Carroll's book useful...a good book! Contemporary Physics

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