Solid State and Quantum Theory for Optoelectronics

Michael A. Parker

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9780849337505
• eBook ISBN: 9781420019452
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Optics & Light

While applications rapidly change one to the next in our commercialized world, fundamental principles behind those applications remain constant. So if one understands those principles well enough and has ample experience in applying them, he or she will be able to develop a capacity for reaching results via conceptual thinking rather than having to

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Author
• Chapter 1. Introduction to the Solid State
• Chapter 2. Vector and Hilbert Spaces
• Chapter 3. Operators and Hilbert Space
• Chapter 4. Fundamentals of Classical Mechanics
• Chapter 5. Quantum Mechanics
• Chapter 6. Solid-State: Structure and Phonons
• Chapter 7. Solid-State: Conduction, States, and Bands
• Chapter 8. Statistical Mechanics
• Appendix A: Growth and Fabrication Methods
• Appendix B: Dirac Delta Function
• Appendix C: Fourier Transform from the Fourier Series
• Appendix D: Brief Review of Probability
• Appendix E: Review of Integrating Factors
• Appendix F: Group Velocity
• Appendix G: Note on Combinatorials
• Appendix H: Lagrange Multipliers
• Appendix I: Comments on System Return to Equilibrium
• Appendix J: Bose–Einstein Distribution
• Appendix K: Density Operator and the Boltzmann Distribution
• Appendix L: Coordinate Representations of Schrodinger Wave Equation
• Index
• Back cover