Author : Eckehard Schöll
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642719279
Semiconductors can exhibit electrical instabilities like current runaway, threshold switching, current filamentation, or oscillations, when they are driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium. This book presents a coherent theoretical des- cription of such cooperative phenomena induced by generation and recombination processes of charge carriers in semicon- ductors.