Phonons in Nanostructures

Preface The first part: 1. Phonons in nanostructures 2. Phonons in bulk cubic crystals 3. Phonons in bulk wurtzite crystals 4. Raman properties of bulk phonons 5. Occupation number representation and general formulation of carrier-phonon scattering rates 6. Anharmonic coupling of phonons 7. Continuum models for phonons in bulk and dimensionally-confined semiconductors 8. Carrier-LO-phonon scattering 9. Carrier-acoustic-phonon scattering 10. Recent developments on electron-phonon interactions in structures in electronic and optoelectronic devices 11. Concluding considerations Appendices.