27.04.2013 Views

10. Appendix

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

756 Subject Index<br />

Atomically clean surface 248<br />

Auger electron spectroscopy 9, 430<br />

– schematic diagram 431<br />

Auto-ionizing state<br />

– atomic spectra 291<br />

Average gap 336<br />

Average scattering time 206<br />

B<br />

Baldereschi-Lipari Hamiltonian 175<br />

– cubic term 179<br />

Band bending 478<br />

– at interfaces 223<br />

– determination by UPS in Si 465<br />

– effect on UPS core level spectra of Si 464<br />

Band dispersion 68<br />

Band dispersion near a degenerate extremum 71<br />

Band index 21<br />

Band nonparabolicity effect on plasma<br />

frequency 339<br />

Band offsets 223, 473<br />

Band structure<br />

– calculation by k · p method 68<br />

– calculation by pseudopotential methods 58, 66,<br />

98, 558<br />

– calculation by tight-binding method 83<br />

– determination by photoemission 445, 448<br />

– – in Ge 457<br />

– – in graphite 447<br />

– GaAs 65<br />

– Ge 65<br />

– – showing optical transitions 268<br />

– historical development 560<br />

– nearly-free electrons in zincblende 48<br />

– nearly-free electrons in diamond 52, 53<br />

– Si 53<br />

– valence bands in diamond- and zincblende-type<br />

semiconductors 71, 563<br />

– ZnSe 65<br />

Band-to-band emission lineshape 422<br />

Band-to-band transitions in photoluminescence<br />

351<br />

Bandgap 1<br />

Bandgap engineering 475<br />

Bandgaps vs lattice constant 475<br />

Bare exciton in CdS 284<br />

Basis functions 33<br />

Basis set 21<br />

Bastard boundary condition 481<br />

Biaxial crystals 246<br />

Binding energies<br />

– of acceptors in Ge 314<br />

– of an exciton to pairs of nitrogen atoms 197<br />

– of core electrons 429<br />

– of exciton to ionized donors and acceptors 368<br />

Birefringence 246<br />

BIS (Bremsstrahlung Isochromat Spectra) 428,<br />

456<br />

Bloch functions 20, 162, 279<br />

Bloch oscillations 580, 581<br />

Body-centered cubic lattice 23<br />

Bohr magneton 536<br />

Bohr radius<br />

– effective 176<br />

– exciton 281, 282<br />

Boltzmann constant 247<br />

Boltzmann distribution 207<br />

Boltzmann equation 206<br />

Bond bending force 115<br />

bond charge model 117<br />

– adiabatic (ABCM) 119<br />

Bond charges 118<br />

Bond stretching force 116<br />

Bonding orbital 83, 84<br />

Bonding states 69<br />

Bonds 84<br />

Born approximation 217<br />

Born effective charge 303<br />

Born-Oppenheimer approximation 19, 107, 121<br />

Born-von-Kármán boundary conditions 27<br />

Born-von Kármán model 114<br />

Bose-Einstein distribution function 126<br />

Bosons 346<br />

Bound electrons 203<br />

Bound exciton 194, 362, 407<br />

– emission spectra 366<br />

– recombination spectra of CdS 366<br />

– in GaAsP 197<br />

Bound holes 203<br />

Boundary condition 481<br />

Bragg reflection 61<br />

Bremsstrahlung isochromat spectra 429, 456<br />

Bridgman Method 6<br />

Brillouin frequency 399<br />

Brillouin scattering 244, 345, 375, 398–400<br />

– resonant 401<br />

– selection rules 424<br />

– spectra of Ge, Si, GaAs 401, 402<br />

Brillouin tensor 405<br />

Brillouin zone 21<br />

– of the fcc lattice 96<br />

de Broglic electron waves 579<br />

Broken bonds 180<br />

Brooks–Herring approach 217, 219–220<br />

Bulk modulus 139<br />

Burstein-Moss shift 348

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!