Semiconductor Physics

Introductory Part.- Abram Fyodorovich Ioffe (29th October 1880 – 14th October 1960).- Semiconductors: A New Material for Electrical Engineering.- Experimental Part.- Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion.- New Optical Methods in Semiconductor Research.- Reemission, Quantum Efficiency and Lifetimes of Radiative Recombination in A3B5 Semiconductors and Heterostructures.- Interacting Excitons in Germanium and Silicon.- Liquid Semiconductors.- Chalcogenide Vitreous Semiconductors.- Electron and Hole Recombination in Narrow Gap Semiconductors.- Optical Cooling of the Nuclear Spin System in a Semiconductor.- Hot Photoluminescence in GaAs Crystals.- The Photon Drag of Electrons in Semiconductors.- A Study of the Metal-Semiconductor Transition in Vanadium Oxides.- New Methods of Fast High Power Switching with Semiconductor Devices.- Theoretical Part.- A Theory of Thermomagnetic Phenomena in Semiconductors in a Quantizing Magnetic Field.- The Mutual Drag of Electrons and Electromagnetic Waves.- Dielectric Losses in Crystals.- Impurity Band and Related Phenomena in Doped Semiconductors.- Light Scattering from Heavily Doped Semiconductors.- Photogalvanic Effects in Noncentrosymmetric Crystals.- Strong Local Interelectron Attraction and “Critical” Potentials in Semiconductors and Insulators.- Urbach’s Rule in the Molecular Model of Amorphous Semiconductors.- The Capacity of an Abrupt Asymmetric p-n Junction.- Carrier Capture by Attraction Centers in Semiconductors.