Fundamentals Of Solid State Electronics

by Chih Tang Sah

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789810206383
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/01/1991
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	1040
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 8.84(h) x 3.29(d)

Editorial Reviews

Seven chapters--three on electronic materials physics and four on devices--encompass history, fabrication, characteristic physics, and circuit models as wells as basic-building-block circuits. Intended as a text for an introductory junior electrical engineering core course. Contains some 100 intermediate and advanced book references and some 500 problems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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