ISBN0201543931

While I maybe be biased in saying this is the best text I've had at a certain school (where the author teaches), I feel this book makes a solid effort at covering the material. The book is organized nicely and the end of chapter questions always relate to the chapter material.

The section right before the questions also helps direct the student to the chapter section pertaining most to the question. It has helped me save time in looking up information! The only thing I would like would be a few more examples. Overall, a well balanced book with adequate conceptual explanation and a fair amount of examples. With this textbook, a good professor (or some determination on your part) and some work, you will do well in a basic semiconductors course.

I'm looking for a good reference book, for my PE exam. I bought this, kind of at Random. When I got it I was very dissapointed to see that it was written in 1996... This was written a year after I graduated from high school... Simiconductor devices have changed so much sense then... I hope it is a good book, but I wish I would have got a more recent book.

Reads like a novel. This book teaches semiconductor theory very well. It would be nice if it had some practical realizations of the theory it teaches, but it is overall the best book you will find in introductory semiconductors.

We use it as our textbook for an undergraduate course at Carnegie Mellon University.
This book is fundamental enough. Once you are patient enough to read it, you will get a lot.
It teaches concepts step by step, very good for beginners!

This Books provides a good idea in Semiconductor material for Physics Major students and Engineering students. This explains about solid state physics.

Kiran Shrestha
Univ of Massachusetts Boston