Book Review: Introduction to Semiconductor Phenomena and Devices

Semiconductor devices now figure very widely in the undergraduate syllabus in electrical engineering, but for the most part they are regarded as circuit elements with certain given properties. In this scheme, the physical processes from which these properties arise, and the inception of new devices and of higher performance versions of devices are regarded as the business of the physicist. Gradually, however, this rather artificial division is disappearing, and electrical engineers are being taught the fundamental processes important for an understanding of semiconductor devices, just as they have always been taught the fundamentals of vacuum electronic devices.