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Semiconductors can exhibit electrical instabilities like current runaway, threshold switching, current filamentation, or oscillations, when they are driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium. This book presents a coherent theoretical des- cription of such cooperative phenomena induced by generation and recombination processes of charge carriers in semicon- ductors.

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Author:   Eckehard Schöll
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
Volume:   35
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.568kg
ISBN:  

9783642719295

ISBN 10:   3642719295
Pages:   313
Publication Date:   20 November 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 1.1 Instabilities in Semiconductors.- 1.2 Phase Transition Analogies.- 2. Bistability of Homogeneous Steady States.- 2.1 One-Carrier Models.- 2.2 Two-Carrier Models.- 2.3 Excitonic Models.- 3. Small Fluctuations from the Homogeneous Steady State.- 3.1 Linear Modes of One-Carrier Models.- 3.2 Filamentary Instability.- 3.3 Domain Instability.- 3.4 Electromagnetic Modes.- 3.5 Oscillatory Instability.- 4. Stationary Transverse Spatial Structures.- 4.1 Plane Current Layers.- 4.2 Cylindrical Current Filaments.- 4.3 Influence of Boundaries.- 4.4 Filamentation in Two-Carrier Models.- 4.5 Multiple Filaments.- 5. Stability of Transverse Spatial Structures.- 5.1 Plane Current Layers.- 5.2 Cylindrical Current Filaments.- 5.3 Finite Boundary Conditions.- 5.4 Fluctuation-Induced Phase Transitions.- 6. Self-Sustained Oscillations and Chaos.- 6.1 Mechanisms for Oscillatory Behavior.- 6.2 Limit-Cycle Oscillations.- 6.3 Chaos.- References.

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