Amorphous Semiconductors

This book explains how to use computer modelling to understand amorphous semiconductors for researchers in solid state physics and semiconductor engineering.

Explaining how to use computer modelling to better understand the structure and properties of amorphous semiconductors, this book provides readers with the techniques to construct realistic material structures. It is ideal for both physicists and engineers working in solid state physics, semiconductor engineering and electrical engineering.Understanding the structural unit of crystalline solids is vital in determining their optical and electronic properties. However, the disordered nature of amorphous semiconductors, where no long-range order is retained, makes it difficult to determine their structure using traditional methods. This book shows how computer modelling can be used to overcome the difficulties that arise in the atomic scale identification of amorphous semiconductors. The book explains how to generate a random structure using computer modelling, providing readers with the techniques to construct realistic material structures. It shows how the optical and electronic properties are related to random structures. Readers will be able to understand the characteristic features of disordered semiconductors. The structural and electronic modifications by photon irradiation are also discussed in detail. This book is ideal for both physicists and engineers working in solid state physics, semiconductor engineering and electrical engineering.