Semiconductor Physics:

This book presents a detailed description of the basic semiconductor physics. The reader is assumed to have a basic command of mathematics and some elementary knowledge of solid state physics.

This book has been designed primarily as a text book for a three-semester, three· hour per week senior or graduate course in semiconductor physics for students In electrical engineering and physics, It may be supplemented by a solid state phy .. ics course. Prerequisites are courses in electrodynamics and - for some of the chapters - basic quantum mechanics. Emphasis has been laid on physical rather than technological aspects. Semiconductor physics is in fact an excellent and d … · manding training ground for a future physicist or electrical engineer givina him an opportunity to practice a large variety of physical laws he was introduced to in the more fundamental courses.

This book presents a detailed description of the basic physics of semiconductors. All the important equations describing the properties of these materials are derived without the help of other textbooks.

This well-established monograph, updated and now in its eighth edition, deals mainly with electron transport in, and optical properties of semiconductors, and includes a treatment of lasers and many other quantum processes.