Semiconductor Device Physics and Design

Acknowledgements. Preface. Introduction. 1 Structural Properties of Semiconductors. 1.1 INTRODUCTION. 1.2 CRYSTAL STRUCTURE. 1.3 LATTICE MISMATCHED STRUCTURES. 1.4 STRAINED EPITAXY:STRAIN TENSOR. 1.5 TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES. 1.6 PROBLEMS. 1.7 FURTHER READING. 2 Electronic levels in semiconductors. 2.1 INTRODUCTION. 2.2 PARTICLES IN AN ATTRACTIVE POTENTIAL: BOUND STATES. 2.3 ELECTRONS IN CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS. 2.4 OCCUPATION OF STATES: DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION. 2.5 METALS AND INSULATORS. 2.6 BANDSTRUCTURE OF SOME IMPORTANT SEMICONDUCTORS. 2.7 MOBILE CARRIER. 2.8 DOPING OF SEMICONDUCTORS. 2.9 DOPING IN POLAR MATERIALS. 2.10 TAILORING ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES. 2.11 STRAINED HETEROSTRUCTURES. 2.12 DEFECT STATES IN SOLIDS. 2.13 TECHNOLOGY ISSUES. 2.14 PROBLEMS. 2.15 FURTHER READING. 3 Charge transport in materials. 3.1 INTRODUCTION. 3.2 CHARGE TRANSPORT:AN OVERVIEW. 3.3 TRANSPORT AND SCATTERING. 3.4 TRANSPORT UNDER AN ELECTRIC FIELD. 3.5 SOME IMPORTANT ISSUES IN TRANSPORT. 3.6 CARRIER TRANSPORT BY DIFFUSION. 3.7 CHARGE INJECTION AND QUASI-FERMI LEVELS. 3.8 CARRIER GENERATION AND RECOMBINATION. 3.9 CURRENT CONTINUITY(The law of conservation of electrons and holes separately). 3.10 PROBLEMS. 3.11 FURTHER READING. 4 Junctions in Semiconductors: P-N Diodes. 4.1 INTRODUCTION. 4.2 P-N JUNCTION IN EQUILIBRIUM. 4.3 P-N DIODE UNDER BIAS. 4.4 REAL DIODES: CONSEQUENCES OF DEFECTS AND CARRIER GENERATION. 4.5 REVERSE BIAS CHARACTERISITCS. 4.6 HIGH-VOLTAGE EFFECTS IN DIODES. 4.7 AVALANCHE BREAKDOWN IN A P-N JUNCTION. 4.8 DIODE APPLICATIONS:AN OVERVIEW. 4.9 LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (LED). 4.10 PROBLEMS. 4.11 DESIGN PROBLEMS. 4.12 FURTHER READING. 5 Semiconductor Junctions. 5.1 INTRODUCTION. 5.2 METAL INTERCONNECTS. 5.3 METAL SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTION: SCHOTTKY BARRIER. 5.4 METAL SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS FOR OHMIC CONTACTS. 5.5 INSULATOR-SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS. 5.6 SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROJUNCTIONS. 5.7 PROBLEMS. 5.8 FURTHER READING. 6 Bipolar Junction Transistors. 6.1 INTRODUCTION. 6.2 BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR:A

From the reviews:"This book is a course very well written and comprehensive dedicated to semiconductors. The authors have detailed fundamental concepts from basic physics until research and development topics. ... Important semiconductors properties are summarized in useful tables at the end of the book. To help students to be familiar with the theory, examples are detailed in the text and at the end of each chapter exercises are proposed." (Grégory Guisbiers, Physicalia, Vol. 30 (2), 2008)"This is a classical textbook about the physics of semiconductor devices. It is intended for electrical engineers, but is also useful for young physicists. The book is very clear and covers all the main knowledge necessary for a graduate student in the area of semiconductors ... . It contains many helpful figures, examples and problem sets. This book is also a good guide for teachers. In addition, advanced researchers could use it because the needed information is easy to find and extremely well synthesized." (Mircea Dragoman, Optics and Photonics News, September, 2008)