A new printing of a popular and established text, offering a thorough introduction to the underlying physics of semiconductor devices. It begins with a review o... » 

A new printing of a popular and established text, offering a thorough introduction to the underlying physics of semiconductor devices. It begins with a review of basic solid state physics, then goes on to describe the properties of semiconductors, including energy bands, the concept of effective mass, carrier concentration and conduction in more detail. Thereafter the book is concerned with the principles of operation of specific devices, beginning with the Gunn Diode and the p-n junction. The remaining chapters cover the LED, the bipolar transistor, the field-effect transistor and the semiconductor laser. It concludes with a chapter providing a brief introduction to quantum theory. «