Primary goal of this book is to provide a cohesive description of the vast field of semiconductor quantum devices, with special emphasis on basic quantum-mechanical phenomena governing the electro-optical response of new-generation nanomaterials. The book will cover within a common language different types of optoelectronic nanodevices, including quantum-cascade laser sources and detectors, few-electron/exciton quantum devices, and semiconductor-based quantum logic gates. The distinguishing feature of the present volume is a unified microscopic treatment of quantum-transport and coherent-optics phenomena on ultrasmall space- and time-scales, as well as of their semiclassical counterparts.
Author(s): Fausto Rossi (auth.)
Series: NanoScience and Technology
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 382
Tags: Nanotechnology;Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Solid State Physics;Spectroscopy and Microscopy;Electrical Engineering;Engineering, general
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Fundamentals of Semiconductor Materials and Devices....Pages 1-51
Ultrashort Space- and Time-Scales: Need for a Quantum Description....Pages 53-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
The Density-Matrix Approach....Pages 89-130
Generalization to Systems with Open Boundaries....Pages 131-166
Simulation Strategies....Pages 167-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Modeling of Unipolar Semiconductor Nanodevices....Pages 215-231
Quantum-Well Infrared Photodetectors....Pages 233-248
Quantum-Cascade Lasers....Pages 249-272
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Few-Electron/Exciton Quantum Devices....Pages 275-309
Semiconductor-Based Quantum Logic Gates....Pages 311-332
New Frontiers of Electronic and Optoelectronic Device Physics and Technology....Pages 333-342
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
The Envelope-Function Approximation....Pages 345-348
The U Boundary-Condition Scheme....Pages 349-351
Evaluation of the Carrier–Quasiparticle Scattering Superoperator....Pages 353-355
Derivation of the Wigner Transport Equation....Pages 357-359
Back Matter....Pages 361-380
