1 CRYSTAL PROPERTIES AND GROWTH OF SEMICONDUCTORS. Semiconductor Materials. Periodic Structures. Crystal Lattices. Cubic Lattices. Planes and Directions. The Diamond Lattice. Bulk Crystal Growth. Starting Materials. Growth of Single Crystal Ingots. Wafers. Doping. Epitaxial Growth. Lattice Matching in Epitaxial Growth. Vapor-Phase Epitaxy. Molecular Beam Epitaxy. 2 ATOMS AND ELECTRONS. Introduction to Physical Models. Experimental Observations. The Photoelectric Effect. Atomic Spectra. The Bohr Model. Quantum Mechanics. Probability and the Uncertainty Principle. The Schrdinger Wave Equation. Potential Well Problem. Tunneling. Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table. The Hydrogen Atom. The Periodic Table. 3 ENERGY BANDS AND CHARGE CARRIERS IN SEMICONDUCTORS. Bonding Forces and Energy Bands in Solids. Bonding Forces in Solids
