An Introduction to Semiconductor Devices by Donald Neamen provides an understanding of the characteristics, operations and limitations of semiconductor devices. In order to provide this understanding, the book brings together the fundamental physics of the semiconductor material and the semiconductor device physics.
This new text provides an accessible and modern presentation of material. Quantum mechanic material is minimal, and the most advanced material is designated with an icon. This modern approach meands that coverage of the MOS transistor preceeds the material on the bipolar transitor, which reflects the dominance of MOS technology in today's world.
Excellent pedagogy is present throughout the book in the form of interesting chapters openers, worked examples, a variety of exercises, key terms, and end of chapter problems.
Chapter 1 The Crystal Structure of Solids
Chapter 2 Theory of Solids
Chapter 3 The Semiconductor in Equilibrium
Chapter 4 Carrier Transport Phenomena
Chapter 5 The pn Junction
Chapter 6 Fundamentals of the MOS Transistor
Chapter 7 The MOSFET: Additional Concepts
Chapter 8 Nonequilibrium Excess Carriers in Semiconductors
Chapter 9 The pn Junction Diode
Chapter 10 The Bipolar Transistor
Chapter 11 Additional Semiconductor Devices and Device Concepts
Chapter 12 Optical Devices
Appendix A Selected List of Symbols
Appendix B System of Units, Conversion FActors, and General Constants
Appendix C The Periodic Table
Appendix D "Derivation" of Schrodinger's Wave Equation
Appendix E Units of Energy-The Electron-Volt
Appendix F Derivation of Density of States Function
Appendix G Derivation of Shockley-Read-Hall Recombination Rates
Appendix H Answers to Selected Problems