Introduction to Space Charge Effects in Semiconductors [Hardcover]

Describing space-charge effects in semiconductors, this text moves from basic principles to advanced application in semiconducting devices. It uses detailed analyses of the transport, Poisson, and continuity equations to show the behavior of solution curves.

Space Charges in Insulators.- Creation of Space-Charge Regions in Solids.- The Schottky Barrier.- Minority Carriers in Barriers.- Minority Carrier Currents.- Schottky Barrier in Two-Carrier Model.- pn-Homojunctions.- The Photovoltaic Effect.- The Schottky Barrier Photodiode.- The pn-Junction with Light.- The Heterojunction with Light.

Dr. Karl W. B?er, is a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Solar Energy at the University of Delaware, emeritus, he is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the IEEE, the ASES, and the AAAS; he has won numerous top prizes in National and International Professional Societies and from his University; he is the Author of over 320 publications relating to solid state physics and solar energy and the author of six books in solid state physics, numerous book chapters and editor of 25 international proceedings. He created physica status solidi and is still an editor of series (a), he has created and acted as editor-in-chief of the Advances in Solar Energy for more than two decades. Listed in Worlds Whos Who and may other reference books and was recently inducted into the Worlds Solar Energy Hall of Fame. He is best known for his extensive research into the electrical properties of cadmium sulfide and for his development of CdS-based solar cells and for the creation of the first solar house that integrated solar electric and thermal conversion in a systems approach (the Solar One house of the University of Delaware). He is the author of numerous patents in the field of semiconducting and photo conducting devices. He is still a Research Professor with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Department of Material Science and Engineering, as welll#6