FUNDAMENTALS OF SOLID STATE ELECTRONICS
by Chih-Tang Sah (University of Florida, USA)
Preface (1,112k)
Table of Contents (774k)
Chapter 1: Electrons, Bonds, Bands and Holes
Chapter 1.100: Introduction (355k)
Chapter 1.110: Classification of Materials (773k)
Chapter 1.120: Crystalline and Impure Semiconductors are Needed in Electronic Device Applications (357k)
Chapter 1.130: Crystal Lattices and Periodic Structures (1,596k)
About the Author
A leading engineer and physicist, Prof. Sah was formerly the head and manager of physics at Fairchild Semiconductor where he led the team that developed the first generation silicon integrated circuit technology. He was a professor of electrical engineering and professor of physics at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and currently holds the first eminent scholar Chair in engineering at the Univ. of Florida where he is also a graduate research professor. He was listed as one of the world's 1000 most cited scientists during 1965–1978 and has given more than 100 invited lectures on transistor physics and technology.
This is perhaps the most comprehensive undergraduate textbook on the fundamental aspects of solid state electronics. It presents basic and state-of-the-art topics on materials physics, device physics, and basic circuit building blocks not covered by existing textbooks on the subject. Each topic is introduced with a historical background and motivations of device invention and circuit evolution. Fundamental physics is rigorously discussed with minimum need of tedious algebra and advanced mathematics. Another special feature is a systematic classification of fundamental mechanisms not found even in advanced texts. It bridges the gap between solid state device physics covered here with what students have learnt in their first two years of study.
Used very successfully in a one-semester introductory core course for electrical and other engineering, materials science and physics junior students, the second part of each chapter is also used in an advanced undergraduate course on solid state devices. The inclusion of previously unavailable analyses of the basic transistor digital circuit building blocks and cells makes this an excellent reference for engineers to look up fundamental concepts and data, design formulae, and latest devices such as the GeSi heterostructure bipolar transistors.
Written by a leading engineer and physicist, Prof. Sah currently holds the first eminent scholar chair in engineering at the Univ. of Florida where he is also a graduate research professor.
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