Development of Qualitative Theories of the Fundamental Electronic Structure of Pure and, Impure Semiconductors

Abstract

The past five years of this project have been devoted to (development of qualitative theories of the fundamental electronic structure of pure and, impure semiconductors.) The basic theoretical tools and also conclusions relating to chiefly photoemission type experiments and to some extent spectroscopy of pure II-VI and III-V compounds are presented. Basic complete work relating to adsorbates and their spectra are reported. This investigation has the purpose of performing self-consistent energy band calculations on some of the II-VI compounds, such as cadmium sulfide, zinc oxide, and zinc sulfide. These materials have applications as phosphors (ZnS and CdS), as infrared detectors (ZnS), in photovoltaic cells (CdS-Cu2S or CdS-CdTe heterojunctions), in batteries (ZnO), as FETs (CdS), in heterojunction lasers (CdS), and even as acoustic amplifiers (CdS).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA217879

Entities

People

  • A. B. Kunz

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Band Gaps
  • Band Structures
  • Compound Semiconductors
  • Computational Science
  • Conduction Bands
  • Crystal Lattice Vibrations
  • Crystal Lattices
  • Crystal Structure
  • Electron Energy
  • Energy Bands
  • Energy Levels
  • First Principles Calculations
  • Quantum Numbers
  • Quantum Properties
  • Semiconductors
  • Spectra
  • Spectroscopy

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics