Essential Semiconductor Physics [pdf]

(nanohub.org)

220 points | by akshatjiwan 3 days ago

6 comments

  • osnium123 1 day ago
    It turns out that this is a part of an entire series of textbooks focused on semiconductors. https://www.worldscientific.com/series/neelns

    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.

  • kridsdale3 1 day 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.

    • rramadass 1 day ago
      > Mathematically had us working from Schrödinger to LEDs and Transistors over the course of 4 months.

      What were the books used for this?

      • kridsdale3 19 hours 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.
  • bolangi 1 day ago
    A slightly different audience, probably, but I was greatly assisted by Intuitive IC Electronics by Thomas Fredriksen.

    https://www.amazon.com/Intuitive-electronics-sophisticated-e...

  • osnium123 1 day ago
    Prof. Lundstrom is a giant in semiconductors and it’s exciting to see him publish this book.
  • lemonberry 1 day ago
    As someone unfamiliar with this field, I'm amazed at how readable this is. Must be a great professor.
  • barrenko 1 day ago
    This would be both math and physics and chemistry?
    • osigurdson 1 day ago
      Often you would study this type of material in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
      • IAmBroom 23 hours ago
        And Physics, but probably not Chemistry.
        • fc417fc802 15 hours 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.