Название: Semiconductors and Modern Electronics
Автор: Chuck Winrich
Издательство: IOP Publishing, Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Год: 2019
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.17 MB

Semiconductors and Modern Electronics is a brief introduction to the physics behind semiconductor technologies.

Chuck Winrich, a physics professor at Babson College, explores the topic of semiconductors from a qualitative approach to understanding the theories and models used to explain semiconductor devices. Applications of semiconductors are explored and understood through the models developed in the book. The qualitative approach in this book is intended to bring the advanced ideas behind semiconductors to the broader audience of students who will not major in physics. Much of the inspiration for this book comes from Dr. Winrich's experience teaching a general electronics course to students majoring in business. The goal of that class, and this book, is to bring forward the science behind semiconductors, and then to look at how that science affects the lives of people.

As a book that was developed from teaching materials, it is natural to suggest that others could use this book in courses. However, I think it can also serve as an introduction to anyone interested in the science behind the many types of semiconductor devices we find commonplace today, including LED lights, solar cells, and computers to name just a few. I suggest this as an introduction because I think that this book is an example of the Pareto principle – the majority of your results come from a small part of your efforts. This book focuses on a few big ideas that we can use to understand and explain semiconductor devices. From that big-idea introduction (the small part of effort) we can understand the basis for many applications where semiconductors are useful (the large part of results) even if we do not examine every variation of every type of device.