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Elementary Semiconductor Device Physics: Understanding Energy Band Formation Using Circuit Theory

Elementary Semiconductor Device Physics: Understanding Energy Band Formation Using Circuit Theory

Amakawa, Shuhei
Masu, Kazuya

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringPhysics

ISBN10: 103257447X
ISBN13: 9781032574479
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: Oct 31 2024
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book by two leading experts on integrated circuit design adopts an untraditional approach to introducing semiconductor devices to beginners. The authors use circuit theory to provide a digestible explanation of energy band theory and understanding of energy band diagrams.

After briefly summarizing the basics of semiconductors, the authors describe semiconductor devices from a circuit theoretic point of view, making the book especially suitable for circuit design students and engineers. Further to the emphasis on the circuit perspective, the book then uses circuit theory to introduce readers to the famously indigestible energy bands of crystalline solids. Additionally, the book explains how to read physics from energy band diagrams of semiconductor devices in great detail. The key to appreciating the real power of energy band diagrams is shown to lie in the understanding of the concept of the quasi-Fermi levels, introduced in 1949 by William Shockley but remaining elusive to date and therefore often omitted from energy band diagrams. To rectify this, some of the energy band diagrams presented in this book, complete with quasi-Fermi levels, were drawn using a device simulator (a.k.a. technology computer-aided design; TCAD), offering quantitative information about device physics. The book could, therefore, also serve as a hands-on course text in TCAD-drawn band diagram reading.

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