Semiconductor Physical Electronics, Second Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of fundamental semiconductor physics that is essential to an understanding of the physical and operational principles of a wide variety of semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices. This text presents a unified and balanced treatment of the physics, characterization, and applications of semiconductor materials and devices for physicists and material scientists who need further exposure to semiconductor and photonic devices, and for device engineers who need additional background on the underlying physical principles. This updated and revised second edition reflects advances in semicondutor technologies over the past decade, including many new semiconductor devices that have emerged and entered into the marketplace. It is suitable for graduate students in electrical engineering, materials science, physics, and chemical engineering, and as a general reference for processing and device engineers working in the semicondictor industry.

Provides comprehensive coverage of the physical and operational principles of semiconductor materials and devices

Classification of Solids and Crystal Structure.- Lattice Dynamics.- Semiconductor Statistics.- Energy Band Theory.- Equilibrium Properties of Semiconductors.- Excess Carrier Phenomenon in Semiconductors.- Transport Properties of Semiconductors.- Scattering Mechanisms and Carrier Mobilities in Semiconductors.- Optical Properties and Photoelectric Effects.- Metal-Semiconductor Contacts.- p-n Junction Diodes.- Solar Cells and Photodetectors.- Light-Emitting Devices.- Bipolar Junction Transistors.- Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors.- High-Speed III-V Semiconductor Devices.