Semiconductor Devices: Basic Principles [Paperback]

Jasprit Singh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 31, 2000 | ISBN-10: 047136245X | ISBN-13: 978-0471362456 | Edition: 1

From physical process to practical applications - Singh makes the complexities of modern semiconductor devices clear! The semiconductor devices that are driving today's information, technologies may seem remarkably complex, but they don't have to be impossible to understand. Filled with figures, flowcharts, and solved examples, Jasprit Singh's Semiconductor Devices provides an accessible, well-balanced introduction to semiconductor physics and its application to modern devices. Beginning with the physical process behind semiconductor devices, Singh clearly explains difficult topics, including bandstructure, effective masses, holes, doping, carrier transport, and lifetimes. Following these physical fundamentals, you'll explore the operation of important semiconductor devices, such as diodes, transistors, light emitters, and detectors, along with issues relating to the optimization of device performance. Features
* Over 150 solved examples, integrated throughout the text, clarify difficult concepts.
* End-of-chapter summary tables and hundreds of figures reinforce the intricacies of modern semiconductor devices.
* Discussion of device optimization issues explains why you have to trade one performance against another in devices.
* Shows the relationship of physical parameters to SPICE parameters and its impact on circuit issues.
* Technology Roadmaps outline what's currently happening in the field and present a look at where device technology is headed in the future.
* A Bit of History sections, included in each chapter, explore the history of the concepts developed and provide a snapshot of the personalities involved and the challenges of the time.

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From physical process to practical applications - Singh makes the complexities of modern semiconductor devices clear! The semiconductor devices that are driving today's information, technologies may seem remarkably complex, but they don't have to be impossible to understand. Filled with figures, flowcharts, and solved examples, Jasprit Singh's Semiconductor Devices provides an accessible, well-balanced introduction to semiconductor physics and its application to modern devices. Beginning with the physical process behind semiconductor devices, Singh clearly explains difficult topics, including bandstructure, effective masses, holes, doping, carrier transport, and lifetimes. Following these physical fundamentals, you'll explore the operation of important semiconductor devices, such as diodes, transistors, light emitters, and detectors, along with issues relating to the optimization of device performance. Features
* Over 150 solved examples, integrated throughout the text, clarify difficult concepts.
* End-of-chapter summary tables and hundreds of figures reinforce the intricacies of modern semiconductor devices.
* Discussion of device optimization issues explains why you have to trade one performance against another in devices.
* Shows the relationship of physical parameters to SPICE parameters and its impact on circuit issues.
* Technology Roadmaps outline what's currently happening in the field and present a look at where device technology is headed in the future.
* A Bit of History sections, included in each chapter, explore the history of the concepts developed and provide a snapshot of the personalities involved and the challenges of the time.

Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 31, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047136245X
• ISBN-13: 978-0471362456
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 1.1 x 9.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #645,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 2 for under 3 for grad., January 24, 2001

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This review is from: Semiconductor Devices: Basic Principles (Paperback)

there are few problems in this book. This book may be good for a graduate level students. but it is far advanced for an introductory course. First, author did not explain very sign in an equation. it seems author expects readers to know each sign automatically. I feel like I need to go over the book in order to find what the sign means. second, in the text, author mentioned about wave function. and he gives a brief explaination about it. In my opinion, a brief introduction is not enough. he should also include a complete reference in the book talking about wave function. Thrid, and the worst, author did not give a clear explaination for example. It is not step by step. Reader needs to be very intelligent to apply and understand the approach in example. In later part of problems, he gives a question that he did not really mention about it. I always feel the best book is a book that is most clear and comprehensible. This book is not.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars garbage, awful book, September 27, 2011

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E. shaffer "hair metal" (Pearl Harbor, HI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Semiconductor Devices: Basic Principles (Paperback)

This is not basic principles. Half of the book is math, very complicated endless pages and pages of math, and the problems bear no passing relation to the concepts being explained. The book has many graps, none of which is ever explained in the text. Most graphs do not have the axis labeled so you have no clue what the graphs mean. Didn't we learn to label our graphs in say second grade? There is very little explination of principles, and the explination is very poor. Author obsessed with history lessons and verbose statements about "Semiconductors have revolutionized the world, bla bla bla." If you are looking for explanations, look elsewhere, you will find none in this miserable excuse for a text. Awful!!!

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very nice book, March 23, 2005

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Jerome Caron "Jerome Caron" (Reno, nevada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Semiconductor Devices: Basic Principles (Paperback)

This book is actually much more than an introduction. It is one of the best books I could find on semiconductors.

It is very well documented, very rich. It reminds the theoretical bases in a very relevant and accurate way. It presents a lot of practical aspects (the given information is often very difficult to find in the literature). It gives a lot a numerical examples.

The points I really appreciated in this book :

- I could not find any error (which is not very usual when you read carefully a technical book)

- you can read every chapters and you do not need to find complementary information in other books to have a clear understanding : everything is in the book

- it gives you a very deep and practicle understanding of semiconductors

For example, a whole chapters is dealing with pn junctions. It does not only give you the bases that you can find in EVERY book on semiconductors. It gives you these bases in a very clear, accessible and accurate way. AND it treats many additionnal aspects that are neglected in most books : Zener breakdown, high-voltage effects, parasitic capacitances (high frequency behavior), very narrow diodes, consequences of semiconductors defects in real diodes, etc... Another chapter is devoted to Schottky and other kinds of junctions.

This book is very practical, accurate, and is almost an encyclopedia. Maybe I will buy it.