Phonons in Nanostructures (Paperback)

Preface; The first part: 1. Phonons in nanostructures; 2. Phonons in bulk cubic crystals; 3. Phonons in bulk wurtzite crystals; 4. Raman properties of bulk phonons; 5. Occupation number representation and general formulation of carrier-phonon scattering rates; 6. Anharmonic coupling of phonons; 7. Continuum models for phonons in bulk and dimensionally-confined semiconductors; 8. Carrier-LO-phonon scattering; 9. Carrier-acoustic-phonon scattering; 10. Recent developments on electron-phonon interactions in structures in electronic and optoelectronic devices; 11. Concluding considerations; Appendices.