Plasma and Current Instabilities in Semiconductors

Plasma and Current Instabilities in Semiconductors details the main ideas in the physics of plasma and current instabilities in semiconductors.
The title first covers plasma in semiconductors, and then proceeds to tackling waves in plasma. Next, the selection details wave instabilities in plasma and drift instabilities. The text also discusses hot electrons, along with the instabilities due to inter-valley electron transfer. The next chapters talks about avalanche and recombination instabilities. The last chapter deals with plasma streams.
The book will be of great use to student and professional electronics engineers and technicians.

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List of Main Symbols
Chapter I. Plasma in Semiconductors

1. Main Definitions
2. The Dispersion Equation
3. Drift Currents of Charged Particles and Electric Conductivity of a Semiconductor in Electric and Magnetic Fields
4. The Boltzmann Kinetic Equation
5. The Effective Mass and the Band Structure
6. Scattering Mechanisms and Relaxation Times
   Chapter II. Waves in Plasma
7. Waves in a Cold Plasma in the Absence of Magnetic Field
8. Waves in a Single-Component Plasma Placed in Magnetic Field
9. The Multi-Component Plasma. Magnetohydrodynamic and Magnetosonic Waves
10. The Effect on Waves of Thermal Motion of Particles. Electrosonic Waves. Landau Attenuation
11. Helicon Waves in Metals
12. Waves in a Semiconductor with Anisotropic Valleys
13. Experimental Observation of Magnetoplasma Waves in Semiconductors
14. Helicon Spectroscopy
    Chapter III. Wave Instabilities in Plasma
15. Criteria of Instability
16. Practical Methods of Determining Instability Criteria
17. The Negative Differential Conductivity
18. Energy Transfer to Waves in Plasma
    Chapter IV. Drift Instabilities
19. The Interaction of the Charge Carrier Flux and Waves in the Plasma with the Acoustical Waves in the Lattice
20. Interaction of the Drift Current of Charge Carriers with Waves in an Unbounded Plasma
21. Interaction of Streams of Charge Carriers and Waves in a Bounded Plasma
    Chapter V. Hot electrons
22. The Mean Energy and the Drift Velocity of Hot Electrons. Thermal Instability
23. The Energy Distribution Function of Hot Electrons
24. Heating of Electrons in Many-Valley Semiconductors of the Type AIII BV and AII BVI
25. The Heating of Electrons in Germanium and Silicon
26. The Monte Carlo Method
    Chapter VI. Instabilities Due to Inter-valley Electron Transfer
27. Electric Domains. Gunn Effect
28. Operation Modes of Diodes with Negative Bulk Conductivity
29. Absolute Negative Resistance
    Chapter VII. Avalanche Instabilities
30. Avalanche Instability
31. Mechanisms of Charge Carrier Generation by the Electric Field
32. Avalanche Structures
    Chapter VIII. Recombination Instabilities
33. Recombination of Hot Electrons
34. Recombination Waves
35. Injection Instabilities
    Chapter IX. Plasma Streams
36. Plasma Streams through a Semiconductor with Variable Cross-section
37. Pinch-effect
38. Kink and Gradient Instabilities
    Appendix
    References
    Index