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- Successful and comprehensive textbook on semiconductor physics
- Covers all major aspects of semiconductor physics
- Integrates physics and materials science
- Contains problems to whose solution the student is carefully guided
- Uses an intuitive physical approach to enhance understanding
- Includes extensive tables of material properties
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The most striking feature of the book is its modern outlook ... provides a wonderful foundation. The most wonderful feature is its efficient style of exposition ... an excellent book." Physics Today
"This book, aimed at postgraduates not undergraduates, exemplifies both the difficulty of the subject and its variety. It presents the theoretical derivations carefully and in detail and gives thorough discussions of the experimental results it presents. This makes it an excellent textbook both for learners and for more experienced researchers wishing to check facts. I have enjoyed reading it and strongly recommend it as a text for anyone working with semiconductors … I know of no better text … I am sure most semiconductor physicists will find this book useful and I recommend it to them." Contemporary Physics
From the reviews of the fourth edition:
“Fundamentals of Semiconductors by Yu and Cardona, here at the fourth edition, is a book aimed at postgraduate … students. … provides the students with a solid and up-to-date background of the physical properties of semiconductors. … Yu and Cardona present in their book a concise, personal and yet satisfactory list of topics. … presentations are particularly inspiring and enlightening, giving a direct insight into the motivations and into paths which led researchers to fundamental advances in semiconductor physics.” (S. Sanguinetti, Il Nuovo Saggiatore, Vol. 27 (5-6), 2011)
“It provides first-time users, especially the graduate students at whom the text is primarily aimed, with a sense of the dynamism of the subject. Overall, this book remains the best graduate-level text on semiconductor physics that I know, and I recommend it very strongly.” (A. M. Fox, Contemporary Physics, February, 2012)
Authors and Affiliations
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Dept. Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
Peter Y. Yu
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Abt. Experimentelle Physik, MPI für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany
Manuel Cardona
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamentals of Semiconductors
Book Subtitle: Physics and Materials Properties
Authors: Peter Y. Yu, Manuel Cardona
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00710-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-00709-5Published: 17 May 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51736-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-00710-1Published: 07 April 2010
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 4
Number of Pages: XXII, 778
Topics: Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Condensed Matter Physics, Optical and Electronic Materials, Engineering, general