Fundamentals of Semiconductors: Physics and Materials Properties (Graduate Texts in Physics) by Peter YU (PDF)

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Excellent bridge between general solid-state physics textbook and research articles packed with providing detailed explanations of the electronic, vibrational, transport, and optical properties of semiconductors”The most striking feature of the book is its modern outlook … provides a wonderful foundation. The most wonderful feature is its efficient style of exposition … an excellent book.” Physics Today”Presents the theoretical derivations carefully and in detail and gives thorough discussions of the experimental results it presents. This makes it an excellent textbook both for learners and for more experienced researchers wishing to check facts. I have enjoyed reading it and strongly recommend it as a text for anyone working with semiconductors … I know of no better text … I am sure most semiconductor physicists will find this book useful and I recommend it to them.” Contemporary PhysicsOffers much new material: an extensive appendix about the important and by now well-established, deep center known as the DX center, additional problems and the solutions to over fifty of the problems at the end of the various chapters.

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Editorial Reviews: Review From the reviews:”The most striking feature of the book is its modern outlook … provides a wonderful foundation. The most wonderful feature is its efficient style of exposition … an excellent book.” Physics Today”This book, aimed at postgraduates not undergraduates, exemplifies both the difficulty of the subject and its variety. It presents the theoretical derivations carefully and in detail and gives thorough discussions of the experimental results it presents. This makes it an excellent textbook both for learners and for more experienced researchers wishing to check facts. I have enjoyed reading it and strongly recommend it as a text for anyone working with semiconductors … I know of no better text … I am sure most semiconductor physicists will find this book useful and I recommend it to them.” Contemporary PhysicsFrom the reviews of the fourth edition:“Fundamentals of Semiconductors by Yu and Cardona, here at the fourth edition, is a book aimed at postgraduate … students. … provides the students with a solid and up-to-date background of the physical properties of semiconductors. … Yu and Cardona present in their book a concise, personal and yet satisfactory list of topics. … presentations are particularly inspiring and enlightening, giving a direct insight into the motivations and into paths which led researchers to fundamental advances in semiconductor physics.” (S. Sanguinetti, Il Nuovo Saggiatore, Vol. 27 (5-6), 2011)“It provides first-time users, especially the graduate students at whom the text is primarily aimed, with a sense of the dynamism of the subject. Overall, this book remains the best graduate-level text on semiconductor physics that I know, and I recommend it very strongly.” (A. M. Fox, Contemporary Physics, February, 2012) From the Back Cover This fourth edition of the well-established Fundamentals of Semiconductors serves to fill the gap between a general solid-state physics textbook and research articles by providing detailed explanations of the electronic, vibrational, transport, and optical properties of semiconductors. The approach is physical and intuitive rather than formal and pedantic. Theories are presented to explain experimental results. This textbook has been written with both students and researchers in mind. Its emphasis is on understanding the physical properties of Si and similar tetrahedrally coordinated semiconductors. The explanations are based on physical insights. Each chapter is enriched by an extensive collection of tables of material parameters, figures, and problems. Many of these problems “lead the student by the hand” to arrive at the results.The major changes made in the fourth edition include: an extensive appendix about the important and by now well-established deep center known as the DX center, additional problems and the solutions to over fifty of the problems at the end of the various chapters. Some of the solutions contain extensions via discussion about topics of current interest in the field of semiconductor physics, such as spin-orbit coupling and k-linear band dispersion. About the Author Prof. Manuel Cardona, who is a co-author of this popular text book, unfortunately passed away on July 12, 2014 about two months short of his 80th birthday. As a pioneer of the field of semiconductor physics who has mentored many students and researchers around the world he will be sorely missed. Read more

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⭐I didn’t get very far with this book, as it is well beyond my level of familiarity. It is very math intensive, and requires a sound foundation in the topic. I’m not too sure I understand why it’s called “Fundamentals of Semiconductors”, I might suggest “A Very Intense Treatment of Semiconductors”. This is probably a valuable reference for the clever.

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⭐I’m a Ph.D on physics, I read this book from page to page and worked out the problems.This is an excellent book on the physics of semiconductors, NOT on semiconductor devices! The text is well written. The physical concept is clearly explained, mostly with a diagram or a graph. The formulae are carefully deducted without wasting too much time and space. I must add a few words on the problems. From all the physics textbooks I’ve read, only Claude Cohen-Tannoudji’s Quantum Mechanics book is comparable. Those problems usually are about the the formulae, such as k.p. perturbation method and Luttinger Hamiltonian, etc., appeared in the main text but its detail is not appropriate there. The problems are by no means easy. Actually, some of them are really hard. For example, it took me a lot of time to work out the 6 by 6 k.p. perturbation matrix! In the process of working out those problems, I had a better understanding on the computational physics. You don’t see that in a normal textbook!The references are the classical or landstone papers about a specific subject, very good for further research.In summary, this is an excellent textbook, if you want to study it hard.

⭐This book is an excellent reference book on semiconductors in general. The physics behind semiconductor theory is discussed very well, however, if you are looking for a book regarding semiconductor devices or electronics, this is not what you are looking for.One advantage of this book is that it contains a fairly large section for “group theory”, if you are using it in your studies.Electronic, transport and especially optical properties of semiconductors are mentioned very extensively and clearly. There is also a whole chapter on photoemission, which is very useful. The concept of quantum confinement is addressed independently with illustrative examples.If you are interested in semiconductors and want to buy “one” book which you can use and consult all the time, this is the book you need. The authors are some of the best in the World on semiconductors.

⭐This is an excellent book on all properties of semiconductors -electronic structure , phonons , transport and optics . It primarilyfocusses on bulk properties ,but extremely succinct and relevant comments on hetersotructures can also be found interspersed throughout .Many books on semiconductor physics err on the side of breadth at the expense of depth . I found this book to be a pleasant exception . I believe this leaves other similar books like Physics of Semiconductors and their Heterostructures by J.Singh far behind .Cardona (of course) is at his best when discussing otical properties , especially optical diagnostic methods . I have not seen a similar book at this level which gives the same level of description of light-matter interaction in semiconductors.I recommend it highly to all fellow graduate students .

⭐low quality, black and white, more expensive than new one. The plots are not printed in good quality. also the cover is not as it is shown here.

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⭐A well explained book about the foundations of semiconductors with lots of examples and practical data for all the undergrad and grad students in materials science. Although the last edition is from 2003 it is not out of date and is a really nice book to have a first contact with semiconductor physics.

⭐Ótimo livro !!!

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⭐Ce n’est pas un livre d’introduction. Pour lire ce livre, vous devez avoir des connaissances préalables de mécanique quântique et de l’état solide au moins équivalent au niveau du premier cycles de physique.

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