Disordered Semiconductors Second Edition

Disordered Semiconductors Second Edition
Author: Anatoly Popov
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 135158605X

Devices based on disordered semiconductors have wide applications. It is difficult to imagine modern life without printers and copiers, LCD monitors and TVs, optical disks, economical solar cells, and many other devices based on disordered semiconductors. However, nowadays books that discuss disordered (amorphous, nanocrystalline, microcrystalline)

Amorphous Chalcogenide Semiconductors and Related Materials

Amorphous Chalcogenide Semiconductors and Related Materials
Author: Keiji Tanaka
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021-07-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030695980

This book provides introductory, comprehensive, and concise descriptions of amorphous chalcogenide semiconductors and related materials. It includes comparative portraits of the chalcogenide and related materials including amorphous hydrogenated Si, oxide and halide glasses, and organic polymers. It also describes effects of non-equilibrium disorder, in comparison with those in crystalline semiconductors.

Non-Crystalline Chalcogenicides

Non-Crystalline Chalcogenicides
Author: M.A. Popescu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2006-04-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0306471299

The earliest experimental data on an oxygen-free glass have been published by Schulz-Sellack in 1870 [1]. Later on, in 1902, Wood [2], as well as Meier in 1910 [3], carried out the first researches on the optical properties of vitreous selenium. The interest in the glasses that exhibit transparency in the infrared region of the optical spectrum rose at the beginning of the twentieth century. Firstly were investigated the heavy metal oxides and the transparency limit was extended from (the case of the classical oxide glasses) up to wavelength. In order to extend this limit above the scientists tried the chemical compositions based on the elements of the sixth group of the Periodic Table, the chalcogens: sulphur, selenium and tellurium. The systematic research in the field of glasses based on chalcogens, called chalcogenide glasses, started at the middle of our century. In 1950 Frerichs [4] investigated the glass and published the paper: “New optical glasses transparent in infrared up to 12 . Several years later he started the study of the selenium glass and prepared several binary glasses with sulphur [5]. Glaze and co-workers [6] developed in 1957 the first method for the preparation of the glass at the industrial scale, while Winter-Klein [7] published reports on numerous chalcogenides prepared in the vitreous state.

Proceedings of the Physics Conference

Proceedings of the Physics Conference
Author: Madalin Bunoiu
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-06-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780735406681

This proceedings contains the most valuable papers presented to the Physics Conference TIM-08 which became one of the most important events in physics organized in the west region of Romania over the last eight years. The aim of the conference is to present actual national and international problems in physics, to bring together researchers and scientists from Romania and abroad, and to establish scientific contacts between them. The scientific program of the conference included invited lectures, oral and poster presentations, as well as discussions on various topics of present interest, such as, but not limited to condensed matter physics and applications, theoretical and computational physics, and applied physics.

Photo-Induced Metastability in Amorphous Semiconductors

Photo-Induced Metastability in Amorphous Semiconductors
Author: Alexander V. Kolobov
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2006-12-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527608664

A review summarising the current state of research in the field, bridging the gaps in the existing literature. All the chapters are written by world leaders in research and development and guide readers through the details of photo-induced metastability and the results of the latest experiments and simulations not found in standard monographs on this topic. A useful reference not only for graduates but also for scientific and industrial researchers. With a foreword of Kazunobu Tanaka

Amorphous Semiconductors

Amorphous Semiconductors
Author: Kazuo Morigaki
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2017-03-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118757920

Amorphous semiconductors are subtances in the amorphous solid state that have the properties of a semiconductor and which are either covalent or tetrahedrally bonded amorphous semiconductors or chelcogenide glasses. Developed from both a theoretical and experimental viewpoint Deals with, amongst others, preparation techniques, structural, optical and electronic properties, and light induced phenomena Explores different types of amorphous semiconductors including amorphous silicon, amorphous semiconducting oxides and chalcogenide glasses Applications include solar cells, thin film transistors, sensors, optical memory devices and flat screen devices including televisions

The Physics of Amorphous Solids

The Physics of Amorphous Solids
Author: Richard Zallen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2008-07-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527617973

An in-depth study of non-crystalline solids in which the arrangement of the atoms do not have long-range order. Describes the way amorphous solids are formed, the phenomenology of the liquid-to-glass and glass- to-liquid transition, and the technological applications. Emphasizes modern approaches such as scaling, localization, and percolation. Includes extensive treatment of structural aspects of amorphous solids, ranging from metallic glasses, to chalcogenides, to organic polymers. Incorporates illustrations for the clarification of physics concepts.

Models of Disorder

Models of Disorder
Author: J. M. Ziman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1979-09-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521292801

Originally published in 1979, this book discusses how the physical and chemical properties of disordered systems such as liquids, glasses, alloys, amorphous semiconductors, polymer solutions and magnetic materials can be explained by theories based on a variety of mathematical models, including random assemblies of hard spheres, tetrahedrally-bonded networks and lattices of 'spins'. The text describes these models and the various mathematical theories by which the observable properties are derived. Techniques and concepts such as the mean field and coherent approximations, graphical summation, percolation, scaling and the renormalisation group are explained and applied. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in theoretical and experimental physics.

Fundamental Physics of Amorphous Semiconductors

Fundamental Physics of Amorphous Semiconductors
Author: F. Yonezawa
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642816045

The Kyoto Summer Institute 1980 (KSI '80), devoted to "Fundamental Physics of Amorphous Semiconductors", was held at Research Institute for Fundamental Physics (RIFP), Kyoto University, from 8-11 September, 1980. The KSI '80 was the successor of the preceding Institutes which were held in July 1978 on "Particle Physics and Accelerator Projects" and in September 1979 on "Physics of Low-Dimensional Systems". The KSI '80 was attended by 200 participants, of which 36 were from abroad: Canada, France, Korea, Poland, U.K., U.S.A, U.S.S.R., and the Federal Republic of Germany. The KSI '80 was organized by RIFP and directed by the Amorphous Semicon ductor group in Japan. A few years ago, we started to organize an interna tional meeting on amorphous semiconductors' as a satell ite meeting of the International Conference on "Physics of Semiconductors" held on September 1-5, 1980 in Kyoto. We later decided to hold the meeting in the form of the Kyoto Summer Institute. The Kyoto Summer Institute is aimed to be something between a school and a conference. Accordingly, the object of the KSI '80 was to provide a series of invited lectures and informal seminars on fundamental physics of amorphous semiconductors. No contributed paper was accepted, but seminars were open.

Physics of Amorphous Semiconductors

Physics of Amorphous Semiconductors
Author: Kazuo Morigaki
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1999
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789810213817

This is a useful textbook for graduate students in the fields of solid state physics and chemistry as well as electronic engineering. Presenting the fundamentals of amorphous semiconductors clearly, it will be essential reading for young scientists intending to develop new preparation techniques for more ideal amorphous semiconductors e.g. a-Si: H, to fabricate stable and efficient solar cells and thin film transistors and new artificial amorphous materials such as multilayers for quantum devices.A large portion is devoted to the latest developments of amorphous semiconductors including electronic properties of a-Si: H, nature of weak bonds and gap states in a-Si: H, mechanisms for light-induced defect creation in a-Si: H and chalcogenides, quantum phenomena in multilayer fi