Complete Guide to Semiconductor Devices (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Electronics and Vlsi Circuits) [Hardcover]

Kwok K. Ng (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1995 | ISBN-10: 0070358605 | ISBN-13: 978-0070358607

This text provides an overview of existing semiconductor devices. Each device is covered in one short, self-contained chapter for quick review, minimizing the need to cross-refer, and allowing students to compare relative merits of classes of electronic components, such as economic trade-offs.

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"...I feel that I?m performing a public service for readers by recommending The Complete Guide to Semiconductor Devices, Second Edition...covers just about anything you?d care to know about semiconductors.... This new edition...is a testament to the endurance of the earlier work." (Chip Scale, March 2003)

"...this book...is an impressive achievement...I would recommend its addition to any university library?s science or engineering reference collection." (E-Streams, Vol. 6, No. 5, May 2003)

"...a useful text and one that should be available in a well-stocked library..." (ChemPhysChem, Vol 4(8), 2003) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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"...I feel that I'm performing a public service for readers by recommending 'The Complete Guide to Semiconductor Devices (Second Edition), by Dr. K.K. Ng.
Dr. Ng earned his Ph.D in electrical engineering from Columbia University. Since 1980, he's been a technical manager with Agere Systems (formerly Bell Labs), in Murray Hill, N.J. (The book is published by Wiley Interscience [wiley.com], and is available wherever books of this ilk are sold).
The author is no slouch when it comes to technical publishing either. He's been editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters and is a liaison ot the IEEE Press, so it's a pretty good bet he knows what he's talking about.
Now, I don't know Dr. Ng personally, nor do I get any money for mentioning this book or any other. (I did get the book free to review, though!)
I suspect that Dr. Ng covers just about anything you'd care to know about semiconductors within its 700+ pages. This new edition, which follows the first by eight years, is a testament to the endurance of the earlier work." --Ron Iscoff, Editor, Chip Scale Review Online --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 704 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070358605
• ISBN-13: 978-0070358607
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,011,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars comparable to Sze's book, October 11, 2009

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This review is from: Complete Guide to Semiconductor Devices (Hardcover)

The book should not be considered a listing of current major semiconductor devices currently for sale. Instead, it describes the theory behind the major types of devices - like a floating gate MOSFET, LED, injection laser, phototransistor, MIM diode.

Also, it explains quantum tunnelling - Fowler-Nordheim and the use of the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation for the transmission coefficient. Tunnelling is used in various devices, and the understanding given here will be perfectly adequate for many researchers.

Only about 2 years of undergraduate physics is needed as preparation for the book. Plus some electrical engineering.

The text should be compared to the classic Sze tome, Physics of Semiconductor Devices.