Handbook of Optoelectronic Device Modeling and Simulation

Optoelectronic devices are now ubiquitous in our daily lives, from light emitting diodes (LEDs) in many household appliances to solar cells for energy. This handbook shows how we can probe the underlying and highly complex physical processes using modern mathematical models and numerical simulation for optoelectronic device design, analysis, and performance optimization. It reflects the wide availability of powerful computers and advanced commercial software, which have opened the door for non-specialists to perform sophisticated modeling and simulation tasks. The chapters comprise the know-how of more than a hundred experts from all over the world. The handbook is an ideal starting point for beginners but also gives experienced researchers the opportunity to renew and broaden their knowledge in this expanding field.

Hear from Dr. Piprek at this Q&A session: https://www.crcpress.com/go/editor_qa_session_joachim_piprek Joachim Piprek received his Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, in 1986. For more than two decades, he worked in industry and academia on modeling, simulation, and analysis of various optoelectronic devices. Dr. Piprek has taught graduate courses at universities in Germany, Sweden, and in the United States. He was invited guest editor for several journal issues on optoelectronic device simulation and currently serves as an executive editor of Optical and Quantum Electronics as well as an associate editor for the Journal of Computational Electronics. Dr. Piprek is founder and co-chair of the annual conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices and he has also (co-)chaired several SPIE conferences. He has published 3 books, 6 book chapters, 4 patents, and more than 200 research papers.

PART I Fundamentals 1 Electronic Band Structure Stefan Schulz and Eoin P. O'Reilly 2 Electron Transport Francesco Bertazzi, Michele Goano, Giovanni Ghione, Alberto Tibaldi, Pierluigi Debernardi, and Enrico Bellotti 3 Electron-Photon Interaction Angela Thränhardt 4 Optical Waveguiding Slawomir Sujecki 5 Heat Generation and Dissipation Giovanni Mascali and Vittorio Romano 6 Process Simulation Simon Z. M. Li, Changsheng Xia, and Yue Fu PART II Novel Materials 7 Organic Semiconductors Roderick C. I. MacKenzie 8 Polarization in III-N Semiconductors Max A. Migliorato, Joydeep Pal, Xin Huang,Weiguo Hu, MortenWillatzen, and Yousong Gu 9 Dilute Nitride Alloys Christopher A. Broderick, Masoud Seifikar, Eoin P. O'Reilly, and Judy M. Rorison 10 Dilute Bismide Alloys Christopher A. Broderick, Igor P. Marko, Eoin P. O'Reilly, and Stephen J. Sweeney PART III Nanostructures 11 Quantum Wells Seoung-Hwan Park and Doyeol Ahn 12 Nanowires Oliver Marquardt, Vladimir M. Kaganer, and Pierre Corfdir 13 Quantum Dots Stanko Tomic and Nenad Vukmirovic PART IV Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) 14 Light-Emitting Diode Fundamentals Sergey Yu. Karpov 15 Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Pascal Kordt, Peter Bobbert, Reinder Coehoorn, Falk May, Christian Lennartz, and Denis Andrienko 16 Tunnel-Junction Light-Emitting Diodes Yen-Kuang Kuo, Jih-Yuan Chang, Ya-Hsuan Shih, Fang-Ming Chen, and Miao-Chan Tsai 17 Quantum Disk Nanowire Light-Emitting Diodes Fabio Sacconi 18 Influence of Random InGaN Alloy Fluctuations on GaN-Based Light-Emitting Diodes Chen-KuoWu, Tsung-Jui Yang, and Yuh-RennWu 19 Superluminescent Light-Emitting Diodes Nicolai Matuschek and Marcus Duelk PART V Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOAs) 20 Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Fundamentals Michael J. Connelly 21 Traveling-Wave and Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers Angelina Totovic and Dejan Gvozdic 22 Tapered Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers José-Manuel G. Tijero, Antonio Pérez-Serrano, Gonzalo del Pozo, and Ignacio Esquivias 23 Quantum-Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers Benjamin Lingnau and Kathy Lüdge 24 Wave Mixing Effects in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers Simeon N. Kaunga-Nyirenda, Michal Dlubek, Jun Jun Lim, Steve Bull, Andrew Phillips, Slawomir Sujecki, and Eric Larkins 25 Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Dynamics and Pattern Effects Zoe V. Rizou and Kyriakos E. Zoiros