Semiconductor Physics

1. Elementary Properties of Semiconductors. - 2. Energy Band Structure. - 3. Semiconductor Statistics. - 4. Charge and Energy Transport in a Nondegenerate Electron Gas. - 5. Carrier Diffusion Processes. - 6. Scattering Processes in a Spherical One-Valley Model. - 7. Charge Transport and Scattering Processes in the Many-Valley Model. - 8. Carrier Transport in the Warped-Sphere Model. - 9. Quantum Effects in Transport Phenomena. - 10. Impact Ionization and Avalanche Breakdown. - 11. Optical Absorption and Reflection. - 12. Photoconductivity. - 13. Light Generation by Semiconductors. - 14. Properties of the Surface. - 15. Miscellaneous Semiconductors. - Appendix: Physical Constants. - References.