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Physics of Semiconductor Devices

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I decided to write this review after reading the previous reviews to this book. Apparently, a couple of the reviewers think of this book as a text book, which it is not. Even though the first edition was published in 1968, and the second in 1981, this book is still a very useful reference to anyone who works in the field of semiconductor device physics. The author presupposes a good amount of knowledge, and does not try to lead the reader "by hand" through all the details in the derivation of the mathematical expressions. I recommend this book to all serious scholars at the senior level and beyond, -as a reference book-.

This is a fairly good book; however, it is more like a 3rd edition of the Complete Guide to Semiconductor Devices by the second author Ng than the expected updated edition of Sze's classic. Many of the figures are the same as in Ng's book, and although more topics are covered than in Sze's 2nd Ed, the theory of what is covered is often less in-depth. This is a nice book to have, especially if you do not have a copy of Ng's book, but I would not get rid of your 2nd edition of Sze yet. I am giving it 3 stars not because it is a bad book, but I truly believe there is a great deal of similarity between this 3rd Ed of Sze and the 2nd Ed of Ng's book, and I feel a little disappointed.

This book is one of the major references for people in the scientific end of the semiconductor field. It is a good reference for practicing scientists in the semiconductor and applied solid-state physics fields. It contains good treatments of most of the topics expected in a semiconductor physics book. Surprisingly, its readability remains high for a work of this breadth. This is not a mainstream book for dilettantes.

The Physics of Semiconductor Devices is a classic in the field, containing all the necessary knowledge as of 1981. The classic devices (diodes, transistors, microwave devices) are covered clearly and exhaustively. The book is lacking in its treatment of semiconductor heterostructures, which are key to modern devices but were not nearly as central two decades ago. One hopes that a 3rd edition is in the works.

As well known, this book is one of the classic books for semicoductor physics. It provides a lot of information in various devices, although some probably is outdated. However, as I know, the author was trying to tell the readers why and how semiconductor devices become what we see today. Because only we know about what the pioneers thinked, we can further modify or invite new semiconductor devices. I must agree that this book is not so easy to follow and read, but, don't froget, this book is devoted for advanced semiconductor physics course. It assumes the reader is already familiar with some foundamental semiconductor knowledge!

This is a great book for intermediate and advanced physics of semiconductor devices. I would caution against the use of of the term 'physics', though, because it usually restricts the physics aspect to energy band diagrams. There is some talk of E-k digrams, but assumes prior exposure to them. There are better books for the physics and E-k diagrams. It does a great job describing many different types of advanced semiconductor devices and their applications. For the beginner, though, I recommend Pierret's "Semiconductor Device Fundamentals". It's not as current as Sze, but gives you a much better foundation of pn junctions, BJTs, and MOSFETs.

This is not a good book to study semiconductor devices.In the reality it is a patchwork of uncorrelated articles about various devices lacking unity of vision and clearness in the exposition.Very often it happened to me to use other 2 or 3 other books only to understand Sze .And the author is extremely fond of making reference to final formulas without explaining the logical developement used.And now the book is dated too:so do not buy this book,try instead "Device eletronics for integrated circuits" by Muller and Kamins which is advanced and well conceived too!

This is a greatest book I ever used on semiconductor device physics.
Good balance between the amount of physics and device description. Also the general look of the book pages are nice (I don't like crowded pages with not enough interline spacing and bold graphs and pictures).

Thanks to Amazon, I got the book in two days. It is one of the most complete reference book for solid state and for electrical engimeering applications. I need it for a project on semiconductor physics concepts.

This book is a great starting point when trying to learn more about a specific topic. It is by no means a text book, but it has its place as an excellent reference. I always find a good path to follow when I start from this book in my research.