Fundamentals of Carrier Transport (Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Vol X) [Hardcover]

Mark Lundstrom (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1990 | ISBN-10: 0201184362 | ISBN-13: 978-0201184365

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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"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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Book Description

Fundamentals of Carrier Transport is an accessible introduction to the behavior of charged carriers in semiconductors and semiconductor devices. It is written specifically for engineers and students 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. The book will be of great interest to graduate students of electrical engineering and applied physics. It will also be invaluable to practising engineers working on semiconductor device research and development. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 308 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley (January 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201184362
• ISBN-13: 978-0201184365
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,757,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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

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This review is from: Fundamentals of Carrier Transport (Hardcover)

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.