PHONONS IN NANOSTRUCTURES
CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 PHONONS IN NANOSTRUCTURES PHONON EFFECTS: FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS ON CARRIER MOBILITIES AND DYNAMICAL PROCESSES TAILORING PHONON INTERACTIONS IN DEVICES WITH NANOSTRUCTURE COMPONENTS CHAPTER 2 PHONONS IN BULK CUBIC CRYSTALS CUBIC STRUCTURE IONIC BONDING – POLAR SEMICONDUCTORS LINEAR-CHAIN MODEL AND MACROSCOPIC MODELS DISPERSION RELATIONS FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY AND LOW-FREQUENCY MODES DISPLACEMENT PATTERNS FOR PHONONS POLARITONS MACROSCOPIC THEORY OF POLAR MODES IN CUBIC CRYSTALS CHAPTER 3 PHONONS IN BULK W¨URTZITE CRYSTALS BASIC PROPERTIES OF PHONONS IN W¨URTZITE STRUCTURE LOUDON MODEL OF UNIAXIAL CRYSTALS APPLICATION OF LOUDON MODEL TO III-V NITRIDES CHAPTER 4 RAMAN PROPERTIES OF BULK PHONONS MEASUREMENTS OF DISPERSION RELATIONS FOR BULK SAMPLES RAMAN SCATTERING FOR BULK ZINCBLENDE AND W¨URTZITE STRUCTURES ZINCBLENDE STRUCTURES W¨URTZITE STRUCTURES LIFETIMES IN ZINCBLENDE AND W¨URTZITE CRYSTALS TERNARY ALLOYS COUPLED PLASMON–PHONON MODES CHAPTER 5 OCCUPATION NUMBER REPRESENTATION PHONON MODE AMPLITUDES AND OCCUPATION NUMBERS POLAR-OPTICAL PHONONS: FR¨OHLICH INTERACTION ACOUSTIC PHONONS AND DEFORMATION-POTENTIAL INTERACTION PIEZOELECTRIC INTERACTION CHAPTER 6 ANHARMONIC COUPLING OF PHONONS NON-PARABOLIC TERMS IN THE CRYSTAL POTENTIAL FOR IONICALLY BONDED ATOMS KLEMENS’ CHANNEL FOR THE DECAY PROCESS LO ? LA(1) + LA(2) LO PHONON LIFETIME IN BULK CUBIC MATERIALS PHONON LIFETIME EFFECTS IN CARRIER RELAXATION ANHARMONIC EFFECTS IN W¨URTZITE STRUCTURES: THE RIDLEY CHANNEL CHAPTER 7 CONTINUUM MODELS FOR PHONONS DIELECTRIC CONTINUUM MODEL OF PHONONS ELASTIC CONTINUUM MODEL OF PHONONS OPTICAL MODES IN DIMENSIONALLY CON?NED STRUCTURES DIELECTRIC CONTINUUM MODEL FOR SLAB MODES: NORMALIZATION OF INTERFACE MODES ELECTRON–PHONON INTERACTION FOR SLAB MODES SLAB MODES IN CON?NED W¨URTZITE STRUCTURES TRANSFER MATRIX MODEL FOR MULTI-HETEROINTERFACE STRUCTURES COMPARISON OF CONTINUUM AND MICROSCOPIC MODELS FOR PHONONS COMPARISON OF DIELECTRIC CONTINUUM MODEL PREDICTIONS WITH RAMAN MEASUREMENTS CONTINUUM MODEL FOR ACOUSTIC MODES IN DIMENSIONALLY CON?NED STRUCTURES ACOUSTIC PHONONS IN A FREE-STANDING AND UNCONSTRAINED LAYER ACOUSTIC PHONONS IN DOUBLE-INTERFACE HETEROSTRUCTURES ACOUSTIC PHONONS IN RECTANGULAR QUANTUM WIRES ACOUSTIC PHONONS IN CYLINDRICAL STRUCTURES ACOUSTIC PHONONS IN QUANTUM DOTS CHAPTER 8 CARRIER–LO-PHONON SCATTERING FR¨OHLICH POTENTIAL FOR LO PHONONS IN BULK ZINCBLENDE AND W¨URTZITE STRUCTURES SCATTERING RATES IN BULK ZINCBLENDE SEMICONDUCTORS SCATTERING RATES IN BULK W¨URTZITE SEMICONDUCTORS FR¨OHLICH POTENTIAL IN QUANTUM WELLS SCATTERING RATES IN ZINCBLENDE QUANTUM-WELL STRUCTURES SCATTERING RATES IN W¨URTZITE QUANTUM WELLS SCATTERING OF CARRIERS BY LO PHONONS IN QUANTUM WIRES SCATTERING RATE FOR BULK LO PHONON MODES IN QUANTUM WIRES SCATTERING RATE FOR CON?NED LO PHONON MODES IN QUANTUM WIRES SCATTERING RATE FOR INTERFACE-LO PHONON MODES COLLECTIVE EFFECTS AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM PHONONS IN POLAR QUANTUM WIRES REDUCTION OF INTERFACE–PHONON SCATTERING RATES IN METAL–SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES SCATTERING OF CARRIERS AND LO PHONONS IN QUANTUM DOTS CHAPTER 9 CARRIER–ACOUSTIC-PHONON SCATTERING CARRIER–ACOUSTIC-PHONON SCATTERING IN BULK ZINCBLENDE STRUCTURES DEFORMATION-POTENTIAL SCATTERING IN BULK ZINCBLENDE STRUCTURES PIEZOELECTRIC SCATTERING IN BULK SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES CARRIER–ACOUSTIC-PHONON SCATTERING IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES CARRIER–ACOUSTIC-PHONON SCATTERING IN QUANTUM WIRES CYLINDRICAL WIRES RECTANGULAR WIRES CHAPTER 10 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS PHONON EFFECTS IN INTERSUBBAND LASERS EFFECT OF CON?NED PHONONS ON GAIN OF INTERSUBBAND LASERS PHONON CONTRIBUTION TO VALLEY CURRENT IN DOUBLE-BARRIER STRUCTURES PHONON-ENHANCED POPULATION INVERSION IN ASYMMETRIC DOUBLE-BARRIER QUANTUM-WELL LASERS CON?NED-PHONON EFFECTS IN THIN ?LM SUPERCONDUCTORS GENERATION OF ACOUSTIC PHONONS IN QUANTUM-WELL STRUCTURES CHAPTER 11 CONCLUDING CONSIDERATIONS PERVASIVE ROLE OF PHONONS IN MODERN SOLID-STATE DEVICES FUTURE TRENDS: PHONON EFFECTS IN NANOSTRUCTURES AND PHONON ENGINEERING