"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Introduction -- 1.1. Some general observations -- 1.2. Optically excited hot carriers -- 1.3. Hot carriers in devices -- 1.4. What is in this book

2. High electric field transport -- 2.1. Velocity and mobility -- 2.2. Transient transport -- 2.3. Inter-valley scattering -- 2.4. Impact ionization and breakdown -- 2.5. Microwave studies -- 2.6. Ballistic devices -- 2.7. Real-space transfer

3. Carrier heating at low temperature -- 3.1. Early work -- 3.2. Phase-breaking -- 3.3. Energy relaxation time -- 3.4. Effects in lower dimensions -- 3.5. Some different systems -- 3.6. Magnetophonon resonance

4. Optical carrier heating -- 4.1. Oscillatory photoconductivity -- 4.2. Free-carrier optics -- 4.3. Optical absorption -- 4.4. Ultrafast excitation studies -- 4.5. Real-space transfer

5. Nonequilibrium phonons -- 5.1. The nature of the problem -- 5.2. Acoustic spectroscopy -- 5.3. Measuring the nonequilibrium phonons -- 5.4. Rise and fall of the phonons -- 5.5. Measuring the lifetime

6. Seeking the distribution function -- 6.1. The relaxation time approximation -- 6.2. Expanding in Legendre polynomials -- 6.3. The drifted Maxwellian distribution -- 6.4. The energy diffusion equations -- 6.5. Low-dimensional systems -- 6.6. Plasmon interactions

7. The ensemble Monte Carlo method -- 7.1. The path integral -- 7.2. The Monte Carlo process -- 7.3. Building a code -- 7.4. Molecular dynamics and Poisson -- 7.5. Real-space transfer -- 7.6. Full band Monte Carlo -- 7.7. Monte Carlo in device simulation

8. Quantum transport -- 8.1. Modes and the Landauer formula -- 8.2. Transport with the Schr�odinger equation -- 8.3. The density matrix -- 8.4. Nonequilibrium Green's functions -- 8.5. Wigner functions -- 8.6. Some final comments.

This research and reference text provides up-to-date coverage of the latest research on hot carriers in semiconductors, with a focus on the background, theoretical approaches, measurements and physical understanding required to engage with the field.

Researchers and graduate students in the area of materials or electronic engineering, particularly those working with photovoltaics.

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David K. Ferry is Regents' Professor Emeritus in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He was also graduate faculty in the Department of Physics and the Materials Science and Engineering program at ASU, as well as Visiting Professor at Chiba University in Japan.

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