Essential Semiconductor Physics [pdf]

(nanohub.org)

224 points by akshatjiwan55 days ago

6 comments

osnium12353 days ago
It turns out that this is a part of an entire series of textbooks focused on semiconductors. <a href="https://www.worldscientific.com/series/neelns" rel="nofollow">https://www.worldscientific.com/series/neelns</a>As the editors note, this series is meant to be an intellectual successor to the Semiconductor Electronics Education Committee (SEEC) books that were published in the 1960s.
kridsdale353 days ago
The best class I took in EE school was the 400 level course on this material.Mathematically had us working from Schrödinger to LEDs and Transistors over the course of 4 months. Changed my whole perspective on shit.
- rramadass52 days ago
 > Mathematically had us working from Schrödinger to LEDs and Transistors over the course of 4 months.What were the books used for this?
 - kridsdale352 days ago
 The professor's in-progress manuscript. Sorry, but I didn't retain any information from then in order to look it up, that was 20 years ago.
bolangi52 days ago
A slightly different audience, probably, but I was greatly assisted by Intuitive IC Electronics by Thomas Fredriksen.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Intuitive-electronics-sophisticated-engineers-technicians/dp/0070219230" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Intuitive-electronics-sophisticated-e...</a>
osnium12353 days ago
Prof. Lundstrom is a giant in semiconductors and it’s exciting to see him publish this book.
- akshatjiwan53 days ago
 A few years ago I took his course on thermoelectricity and really liked his way of teaching. The videos were short and to the point and yet gave me all that I needed to know about the topic.Here's the link in case anyone s interested<a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtkeUZItwHK5y6qy1GFxa4Z4RcmzUaaz6&si=QvVe2pey7aUc9DvE" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtkeUZItwHK5y6qy1GFxa4Z4R...</a>
lemonberry53 days ago
As someone unfamiliar with this field, I'm amazed at how readable this is. Must be a great professor.
barrenko53 days ago
This would be both math and physics and chemistry?
- osigurdson53 days ago
 Often you would study this type of material in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
 - IAmBroom52 days ago
 And Physics, but probably not Chemistry.
 - fc417fc80252 days ago
 It's touched on in chemistry, generally under the field of materials science. After all that's the bastard child of physics and chemistry that semiconductors fall under.I say "generally" because obviously physical chemistry and inorganic chemistry also overlap with it a bit at the edges.