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- Provides comprehensive guide for practitioners and beginners, describing the physics of semiconductors from fundamentals to applications
- Proceeds from first principles to description of actual devices’ behavior
- Includes mathematical derivations and explicit calculations, without being wordy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Review of Analytical Mechanics and Electromagnetism
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Introductory Concepts to Statistical and Quantum Mechanics
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Applications of the Schrödinger Equation
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Systems of Interacting Particles—Quantum Statistics
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About this book
This book describes the basic physics of semiconductors, including the hierarchy of transport models, and connects the theory with the functioning of actual semiconductor devices. Details are worked out carefully and derived from the basic physics, while keeping the internal coherence of the concepts and explaining various levels of approximation. Examples are based on silicon due to its industrial importance. Several chapters are included that provide the reader with the quantum-mechanical concepts necessary for understanding the transport properties of crystals. The behavior of crystals incorporating a position-dependent impurity distribution is described, and the different hierarchical transport models for semiconductor devices are derived (from the Boltzmann transport equation to the hydrodynamic and drift-diffusion models). The transport models are then applied to a detailed description of the main semiconductor-device architectures (bipolar, MOS). The final chapters aredevoted to the description of some basic fabrication steps, and to measuring methods for the semiconductor-device parameters.
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Massimo Rudan
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physics of Semiconductor Devices
Authors: Massimo Rudan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1151-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4699-0
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1151-6
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 649
Number of Illustrations: 158 b/w illustrations
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Semiconductors, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation