About Book:
The textbook represents a first course in electronic materials and devices for undergraduate students. With the additional topics in the accompanying CD, the text can also be used in a graduate introductory course in electronic materials for electrical engineers and material scientists. The third edition is an extensively revised and extended version of the second edition based on reviewer comments, with many new and expanded topics and numerous new worked examples and homework problems. While some of the changes appear to be minor, they have been, nonetheless, quite important in improving the text. For example, the intrinsic concentration n, in Si is now taken as 1 X 1010 cm-3 , instead of the usual value of 1.45 x 1010 cm-3 found in many other textbooks; this change makes a significant difference in device-related calculations. A large number of new homework problems have been provided that put the concepts into applications. Bragg’s diffraction law that is mentioned in several chapters is now explained in Appendix A for those readers who are unfamiliar with it.
The third edition is one of the few books on the market that has a broad coverage of electronic materials that today’s scientists and engineers need. I believe that the revisions have improved the rigor without sacrificing the original semi quantitative approach that both the students and instructors liked. Some of the new and extended Topics are as follows:
Chapter 1: Thermal expansions; atomic diffusion
Chapter 2: Conduction in thin films, interconnects in microelectronics; electromigration
Chapter 3: Planck’s and Stefan’s laws; atomic magnetic moment; Stern-Gerlach experiment
Chapter 4: Field emission from carbon nanotubes; Gruneisen’s thermal expansion
Chapter 5: Piezoresistivity; amorphous semiconductors
Chapter 6: LEDs; solar cells; semiconductor lasers
Chapter7: Debye relaxation; local field in dielectrics; ionic polarizability; Langevin dipolarization, dielectric mixtures.
Chapter 8: Pauli spin par magnetism; band model of ferromagnetism; giant magneto resistance (GMR); magnetic storage
Chapter 9: Sellmeier and Cauchy dispersion relations; Reststrahlen or lattice absorption; luminescence and white LEDs
Appendices: Bragg’s diffraction law and X-ray diffraction; luminous flux and brightness of radiation.
