Gantmakher V.F., Levinson Y.B. Carrier scattering in metals and semiconductors

North-Holland, 1987. — 478 p. — ISBN13: 978-0444598233The transport properties of solids, as well as the many optical phenomena in them are determined by the scattering of current carriers. Carrier Scattering in Metals and Semiconductors'' elucidates the state of the art in the research on the scattering mechanisms for current carriers in metals and semiconductors and describes experiments in which these mechanisms are most dramatically manifested.
The selection and organization of the material is in a form to prepare the reader to reason independently and to deal just as independently with available theoretical results and experimental data. The subjects dealt with include:
electronic transport theory based on the test-particle and correlation-function concepts;
scattering by phonons, impurities, surfaces, magnons, dislocations, electron-electron scattering and electron temperature;
two-phonon scattering, spin-flip scattering, scattering in degenerate and many-band models.Quasi-particles in an ideal crystal
Scattering
Electron-phonon interaction
Scattering by long-wavelength phonons in a simple band
Scattering by phonons in an anisotropic electron band
Electron-electron scattering and the electron temperature
Relaxation characteristics of kinetic effects
Two-phonon processes
Scattering by impurities
Scattering by dislocations
Scattering by a crystal surface
Scattering in a degenerate band and in a multiband model
Spin-flip induced by spin-orbit interaction
The effect of a magnetic field on scattering
Exchange and spin interaction