The Physics of Semiconductors: An Introduction Including Devices and Nanophysics [Hardcover]

Marius Grundmann (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 22, 2006 | ISBN-10: 354025370X | ISBN-13: 978-3540253709 | Edition: 1

Brings the reader to an overview of the subject as a whole and to the point where they can specialize and enter supervised laboratory research

Provides a balance between aspects of solid state and semiconductor physics and the concepts of various semiconductor devices and their applications in electric and photonic devices.

Proffers explicit formulas (with the help of Mathematica) for as many as possible results, going beyond current textbook equations, thus makes easier to understand for undergrads.

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"This book is based on the author’s two semester semiconductor course at the University of Leipzig. … This will be ideal for undergraduate courses to give an overview of fundamentals about semiconductors. … The book meets its main objective of giving a summary of semiconductor fundamentals, devices and applications. … I recommend this book for all university libraries and as a textbook for undergraduate courses." (Chennupati Jagadish, Australian Physics, Vol. 44 (4), 2007)

"This book is based on a two-semester semiconductor physics course. … The book presents a broad survey of modern areas in semiconductor physics and technology with lots of figures and diagrams. … The book is aimed at upper-level-undergraduate and graduate courses on semiconductor physics, solid-state physics and physical electronics. Readers will benefit from the excellent integration of text and figures, references and an index." (Reva Garg, Optics and Photonics News, April, 2007)

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The Physics of Semiconductors provides material for a comprehensive upper-level-undergrauate and graduate course on the subject, guiding readers to the point where they can choose a special topic and begin supervised research. The textbook provides a balance between essential aspects of solid-state and semiconductor physics, on the one hand, and the principles of various semiconductor devices and their applications in electronic and photonic devices, on the other. It highlights many practical aspects of semiconductors such as alloys, strain, heterostructures, nanostructures, that are necessary in modern semiconductor research but typically omitted in textbooks. For the interested reader some additional advanced topics are included, such as Bragg mirrors, resonators, polarized and magnetic semiconductors are included. Also supplied are explicit formulas for many results, to support better understanding. The Physics of Semiconductors requires little or no prior knowledge of solid-state physics and evolved from a highy regarded two-semester course at the University of Leipzig.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 689 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (May 22, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 354025370X
• ISBN-13: 978-3540253709
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,945,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice survey of modern semiconductor science, November 10, 2006

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This review is from: The Physics of Semiconductors: An Introduction Including Devices and Nanophysics (Hardcover)

This book is extremely well illustrated. It is a pleasure thumbing through the book and learning something in a new area just by looking at all the diagrams and pictures. However, the discussions of semiconductor devices are pretty sketchy, and formula derivations are mostly non-existent. For example, the book gives expressions for the different mobility limits for ionized impurity and phonon scattering, but does not derive any of them like Seeger would, although references are given. Unlike the Seeger classic, in its 9th edition, where new topics kind of look like they were just thrown in, this book has a more coherent integrated treatment of "new" topics with the older classical topics. If you want in-depth discussions, you will likely be disappointed. However, if you are looking for a broad survey of modern areas of interest in semiconductor physics and technology, with lots of well-chosen figures and diagrams, this is a fine book.