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Fundamental Electronic and Optical Properties

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Semiconducting Silicides

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Materials Science ((SSMATERIALS,volume 39))

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Abstract

The behavior of electrons in a solid determines its main properties. It is most conveniently specified on the basis of quantum mechanical models describing the electronic band structure of the solid and related optical and transport properties. Computer simulation is employed more and more to validate phenomenological models, to provide complementary information to experimental measurements, and to understand physical phenomena at the atomic scale. In this chapter we focus on the fundamental electronic properties of semiconducting silicides starting from their electronic band structures and extending the analysis to the nature of the orbital band composition, density of states and effective masses of the charge carriers. Related optical properties represented by interband optical spectra, photo and electroluminescence, infrared optical response are then shown and discussed.

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