Fundamentals of Carrier Transport (Hardcover)

by Mark Lundstrom (Author) "Conventional device analysis begins by assuming that carriers behave as classical particles which obey Newton's laws..." (more)
Key Phrases: common scattering mechanisms, composite scattering matrix, ensemble relaxation times, Monte Carlo, New York, Solid-State Electronics (more...)

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"The book is beautifully produced, the author's style is lucid and easy to read and the arguments and physical insights as clear and helpful as one could wish." Contemporary Physics

"An extensive treatment of semiconductor transport." Professor J.D. Bird, Arizona State University

Product Description
Fundamentals of Carrier Transport explores the behavior of charged carriers in semiconductors and semiconductor devices for readers without an extensive background in quantum mechanics and solid-state physics. This second edition contains many new and updated sections, including a completely new chapter on transport in ultrasmall devices and coverage of "full band" transport. Lundstrom also covers both low- and high-field transport, scattering, transport in devices, and transport in mesoscopic systems. He explains in detail the use of Monte Carlo simulation methods and provides many homework exercises along with a variety of worked examples. What makes this book unique is its broad theoretical treatment of transport for advanced students and researchers engaged in experimental semiconductor device research and development.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 464 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (November 20, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521631343
• ISBN-13: 978-0521631341
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #861,780 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's a quantum world..., September 2, 2004

By	Steven J. Wojtczuk (Lexington, MA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There was a time when all a good semiconductor device engineer had to know was the drift-diffusion, Poisson, and continuity equations to model devices, with the Boltzmann transport equation having only made a brief cameo in one's life during a grad school course in Ashcroft and Mermin or some other solid state physics book. With shrinking device dimensions, those days are gone. Lundstrom, a Purdue professor, has written a fairly understandable book (though not easy) describing energy and momentum balance, Monte Carlo methods, and other tools of transport theory. I gave it 4 stars only because I found the notation and style a bit formal for an EE (although a solid state physics student would probably be right at home). On the plus side, there are some interesting topics not normally seen. For example, I believe this may be the only in-print textbook that has a derivation of Van der Pauw's equation for resistivity measurements used in Hall mobility tests by almost every epitaxial growth engineer/scientist on a daily basis. Overall, well worth the money.