{"product_id":"9783319791265","title":"Graduate Texts in Physics","description":"\u003ch1\u003eGraduate Texts in Physics\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eFischetti, Massimo V.; Vandenberghe, William G.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis textbook is aimed at second-year graduate  students in Physics, Electrical Engineer­ing, or Materials Science. It presents  a rigorous introduction to electronic transport in solids, especially at the  nanometer scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eUnderstanding electronic transport in solids requires some  basic knowledge of Ham­iltonian Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics,  Condensed Matter Theory, and Statistical Mechanics. Hence, this book discusses  those sub-topics which are required to deal with electronic transport in a  single, self-contained course. This will be useful for students who intend to  work in academia or the nano\/ micro-electronics industry.\u003cdiv\u003eFurther topics covered  include: the theory of energy bands in crystals, of second quan­tization and  elementary excitations in solids, of the dielectric properties of  semicon­ductors with an emphasis on dielectric screening and coupled interfacial  modes, of electron scattering with phonons, plasmons, electrons and photons, of  the derivation of transport equations in semiconductors and semiconductor  nanostructures somewhat at the quantum level, but  mainly at the semi-classical level. The text presents examples relevant  to current research, thus not only about Si, but also about III-V compound  semiconductors, nanowires, graphene and graphene nanoribbons. In particular, the  text gives major emphasis to plane-wave methods applied to the electronic  structure of solids, both DFT and empirical pseudopotentials, always paying  attention to their effects on electronic transport and its numerical treatment.  The core of the text is electronic transport, with ample discussions of the  transport equations derived both in the quantum picture (the Liouville-von  Neumann equation) and semi-classically (the Boltzmann transport equation, BTE).  An advanced chapter, Chapter 18, is strictly related to the ‘tricky’ transition  from the time-reversible Liouville-von Neumann equation to the time-irreversible  Green’s functions, to the density-matrix formalism and, classically, to the  Boltzmann transport equation. Finally, several methods for solving the BTE are  also reviewed, including the method of moments, iterative methods, direct matrix  inversion, Cellular Automata and Monte Carlo. Four appendices complete the  text.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2018-05-26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319791265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-01101-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 254cm x178cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 474\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45582361002124,"sku":"9783319791265","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319791265.jpg?v=1775767013","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783319791265","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}