Introduction to Solid State Electronics

F.F.Y. Wang

• Publisher: North Holland
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780444873170
• eBook ISBN: 9780444598707
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Condensed Matter

This textbook is specifically tailored for undergraduate engineering courses offered in the junior year, providing a thorough understanding of solid state electronics without relying on the prerequisites of quantum mechanics. In contrast to most solid state electronics texts currently available, with their generalized treatments of the same topics, this is the first text to focus exclusively and in meaningful detail on introductory material. The original text has already been in use for 10 years. In this new edition, additional problems have been added at the end of most chapters. These problems are meant not only to review the material covered in the chapter, but also to introduce some aspects not covered in the text.An amended Solutions Manual is in preparation.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Introduction to Solid State Electronics
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface to the second edition
• Chapter 1. Electrons as particles
• Chapter 2. Electrons as waves
• Chapter 3. Probability and distribution functions
• Chapter 4. Electron lifetime, mobility
• Chapter 5. Wave mechanics
• Chapter 6. Periodic lattice
• Chapter 7. Electrons in the lattice
• Chapter 8. Energy bands in crystals
• Chapter 9. Carrier concentrations
• Chapter 10. Extrinsic semiconductors
• Chapter 11. Lattice waves
• Chapter 12. Mobility and conductivity
• Chapter 13. Ambipolar transport
• Chapter 14. The p–n junction
• Chapter 15. Semiconductor surfaces
• List of symbols
• References
• Appendix I. Physical Constants
• Index