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.
