This book provides all the required information for a course in modern device electronics taken by undergraduate electrical engineers. Offers coverage of silicon technology, several topics in basic semiconductor physics, and Hall-effect sensors. The chapters on MOSFET focus on mobility variations and threshold-voltage dependence. Additional topics include VLSI devices, short channel effects, and computer modeling.
Semiconductor Electronics. Silicon Technology. Metal-Semiconductor Contacts. pn Junctions. Currents in pn Junctions. Bipolar Transistors I: Basic Properties. Bipolar Transistors II: Limitations and Models. Properties of the Metal-Oxide-Silicon System. Mos Field-Effect Transistors I: Physical Effects and Models. Mos Field-Effect Transistors II: High-Field Effects. Answers to Selected Problems. Selected List of Symbols. Index.