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Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (2nd Edition)

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If you are an undergraduate, this book is pretty good and it covers a lot of funamentals.

If you are a grad student, get Coldren's book - "diode lasers and photonic integrated circuits" or Chuang's "Physics of optoelectronic devices" though the theory there is hard for undergrad. Another good,easier book is "Principles and Applications of Optical Communications" by Max Ming-Kang Liu. The most recent book on the theory is "Physics of optoelectronics"-- very good book.

There are some errors in this book such as the rate eq for lasers. The real strength of this book is that it contains a lot of real structures, materials, and applications. Also, the semiconductor part is very complete. However, an updated version would be ideal.

Unfortunately my professor used this book for the class. The book is not clear, almost nothing is demonstrated, the index is very short and incomplete, the exercises are not concize, it lacks a lot of theory, and many important devices such as the second harmonic generator are not covered in the book. If I could turn back in time I would never spent a cent on this book.

This is an excellent book on optoelectronics. I think it is suited for undergrad and grad students and practicing researchers as well. With reviews on semiconductor fundamentals, junction physics, bandstructure this book contains almost everything that you need to know on optoelectronics. With the in-depth analysis of the optoelectronic devices you can come back to review some of the basic staff that you need to know. I think it is a must buy for optoelectronics/photonics engineers. It is somewhat dated though and needs an updated edition.

The book is written with the assumption that the student already has a solid-state physics background. While the first 1/3 of the book is devoted to the explanation of semiconductor creation methods, mathematics and tradeoffs, the author does a very poor job of accurately explaining material. He rarely offers units for each of his equations listed in the book and does not always tell the reader what each of the variables in the equations represent. Without Wikipedia on hand to help, I never would have gotten past chapter 2.

"The homework problems are less to help the reader understand the material and more to show the reader how inadequate they are (and how intelligent the author is)." This quotation from the class professor, not myself.

The exercises are poorly written (ambiguous) and the authors inconsistencies in vocabulary throughout the text makes doing them harder.

i have pallab as my teacher, and of course he's using his book to teach from. I find the book hard to follow, poorly written, and illogically ordered. He needs to spend signifigant time working on the usability of the book. The one redeeming factor is that he is an excellent teacher so it somewhat makes up for the book being in such disarray.

Beginning of book reviews key principles of quantum theory and necessary semiconductor processes to understand device applications. The text is comprehensive in specifying ways to quantify all aspects of optoelectronics and caters to the beginning student as well as the researching professional