This textbook is based on a course in Semiconductor Physics which he prepared for the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. Its second edition is now in preparation. Mir Publishers are publishing English and French translations of "Semiconductor Physics. P. S. Kireev's "Semiconductor Physics" is one of the textbooks that deal most extensively with physical phenomena in uniform semiconductor materials. It touches upon the theory of energy band structure, electron and hole statistics, transport phenomena and scattering theory, recombination, optical, photoelectric and magneto-optical phenomena. The Appendix contains fundamentals of the group theory and its applications to semiconductor physics.
Peculiar to the method of presentation is the wide use being made of the methods of theoretical physics, mostly of quantum mechanics, within the limits set by the programmes of technical colleges.
A rigorous and highly theoretical presentation goes hand in hand with clarity of physical models of various phenomena. Practically in every case a complete calculation is presented, and this goes a long way to simplify work on complex subjects. Experimental data is made use of to illustrate the results of the calculations.
The author of the textbook "Semi- conductor Physics" Pyotr Kireev, D.Sc., is active in research on nuclear and infra-red radiation detectors. A substantial number of his papers deal with various physical phenomena in AIIBVI-type semiconducting com- pounds (cadmium, zinc, and quick- silver tellurides and selenides) from carrier transport to optical and pho- to-magnetoelectric phenomena.
P. S. Kircev devotes much of his effort to the education of specialists in semiconductor technology, working with freshmen, graduate and post-graduate students. Many of his students under his guidance have completed Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Theses.
He had read various academical courses, including those in general and theoretical physics. The short handbook of Physics, of which he is a co-author, has enjoyed wide publicity.