Semiconductor Physics and Devices: Basic Principles

Providing the fundamentals necessary to understand semiconductor device characteristics, operations and limitations, this book reveals the fundamentals by establishing a sound understanding of quantum mechanics and an introduction to quantum theory of solids. This background then permits the student to develop a deeper understanding of how essential physics, semiconductor material physics and semiconductor device physics interrelate. New additions seen in this edition are computer driven problems and examples using numerical techniques, MATLAB, MATHCAD or PSICE.