SEMICONDUCTOR MICROSTRUCTURES

Effective mass Schrodinger equation (envelope wave functions). k-p method. Microscopic approaches (pseudo-potential and tight binding methods). Electron and hole state quantization. Inversion and accumulation layer. Semiconductor quantum wells and superlattices (subband spectrum). Quantum wires and quantum dots. Electric and magnetic field effects. Self-consistent solution of Schrodinger and Poisson equations. Multivalley semiconductor based quantum wells. Optical properties (the interaction Hamiltonian, interband and intraband absorption). Electrooptical and magnetooptical properties. Excitons. Nonlinear optical effects.