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Semiconductor Devices: Basic Principles

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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.

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!!!

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.