LEADER 03998nam 22005775 450 001 9910349513703321 005 20200704142629.0 010 $a3-030-25715-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-25715-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000009040251 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5850803 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-25715-6 035 $a(PPN)269145192 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009040251 100 $a20190813d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTheory of Electronic and Optical Properties of Atomically Thin Films of Indium Selenide$b[electronic resource] /$fby Samuel J. Magorrian 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (96 pages) 225 1 $aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053 311 $a3-030-25714-2 327 $aPart I: Introduction and basics -- Scienti?c context and motivation -- Laser-plasmas -- Part II: Experimental methods -- High-power lasers -- Transportable Paul trap for isolated micro-targets in vacuum -- Part III: Laser-microplasma interactions -- Laser-driven ion acceleration using isolated micro-sphere targets -- Laser-driven micro-source for bi-modal radiographic imaging -- Part IV: Summary and perspectives -- Summary -- Challenges and perspectives -- Appendix. 330 $aThis thesis provides the first comprehensive theoretical overview of the electronic and optical properties of two dimensional (2D) Indium Selenide: atomically thin films of InSe ranging from monolayers to few layers in thickness. The thesis shows how the electronic propertes of 2D InSe vary significantly with film thickness, changing from a weakly indirect semiconductor for the monolayer to a direct gap material in the bulk form, with a strong band gap variation with film thickness predicted and recently observed in optical experiments. The proposed theory is based on a specially designed hybrid k.p tight-binding model approach (HkpTB), which uses an intralayer k.p Hamiltonian to describe the InSe monolayer, and tight-binding-like interlayer hopping. Electronic and optical absorption spectra are determined, and a detailed description of subbands of electrons in few-layer films and the influence of spin-orbit coupling is provided. The author shows that the principal optical excitations of InSe films with the thickness from 1 to 15 layers broadly cover the visible spectrum, with the possibility of extending optical functionality into the infrared and THz range using intersubband transitions. . 410 0$aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053 606 $aSurfaces (Physics) 606 $aInterfaces (Physical sciences) 606 $aThin films 606 $aSolid state physics 606 $aMathematical physics 606 $aSurface and Interface Science, Thin Films$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P25160 606 $aSolid State Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P25013 606 $aTheoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19005 615 0$aSurfaces (Physics). 615 0$aInterfaces (Physical sciences). 615 0$aThin films. 615 0$aSolid state physics. 615 0$aMathematical physics. 615 14$aSurface and Interface Science, Thin Films. 615 24$aSolid State Physics. 615 24$aTheoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics. 676 $a530.41 700 $aMagorrian$b Samuel J$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0838598 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910349513703321 996 $aTheory of Electronic and Optical Properties of Atomically Thin Films of Indium Selenide$91873096 997 $aUNINA