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| Preface | |
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| The Crystal Structure of Solids | |
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| Semiconductor Materials | |
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| Types of Solids | |
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| Space Lattices | |
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| Atomic Bonding | |
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| Imperfections and Impurities in Solids | |
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| Growth of Semiconductor Materials | |
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| Summary | |
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| Introduction to Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Principles of Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Schrodinger's Wave Equation | |
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| Applications of Schrodinger's Wave Equation | |
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| Extensions of the Wave Theory to Atoms | |
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| Summary | |
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| Introduction to the Quantum Theory of Solids | |
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| Allowed and Forbidden Energy Bands | |
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| Electrical Conduction in Solids | |
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| Extension to Three Dimensions | |
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| Density of States Function | |
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| Statistical Mechanics | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Semiconductor in Equilibrium | |
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| Charge Carriers in Semiconductors | |
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| Dopant Atoms and Energy Levels | |
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| The Extrinsic Semiconductor | |
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| Statistics of Donors and Acceptors | |
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| Charge Neutrality | |
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| Position of Fermi Energy Level | |
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| Summary | |
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| Carrier Transport Phenomena | |
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| Carrier Drift | |
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| Carrier Diffusion | |
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| Graded Impurity Distribution | |
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| The Hall Effect | |
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| Summary | |
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| Nonequilibrium Excess Carriers in Semiconductors | |
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| Carrier Generation and Recombination | |
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| Characteristics of Excess Carriers | |
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| Ambipolar Transport | |
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| Quasi-Fermi Energy Levels | |
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| Excess-Carrier Lifetime | |
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| Surface Effects | |
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| Summary | |
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| The pn Junction | |
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| Basic Structure of the pn Junction | |
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| Zero Applied Bias | |
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| Reverse Applied Bias | |
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| Nonuniformly Doped Junctions | |
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| Summary | |
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| The pn Junction Diode | |
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| pn Junction Current | |
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| Small-Signal Model of the pn Junction | |
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| Generation-Recombination Currents | |
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| Junction Breakdown | |
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| Charge Storage and Diode Transients | |
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| The Tunnel Diode | |
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| Summary | |
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| Metal-Semiconductor and Semiconductor Heterojunctions | |
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| The Schottky Barrier Diode | |
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| Metal-Semiconductor Ohmic Contacts | |
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| Heterojunctions | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Bipolar Transistor | |
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| The Bipolar Transistor Action | |
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| Minority Carrier Distribution | |
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| Low-Frequency Common-Base Current Gain | |
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| Nonideal Effects | |
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| Equivalent Circuit Models | |
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| Frequency Limitations | |
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| Large-Signal Switching | |
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| Other Bipolar Transistor Structures | |
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| Summary | |
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| Fundamentals of the Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor | |
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| The Two-Terminal MOS Structure | |
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| Capacitance-Voltage Characteristics | |
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| The Basic MOSFET Operation | |
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| Frequency Limitations | |
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| The CMOS Technology | |
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| Summary | |
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| Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor: Additional Concepts | |
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| Nonideal Effects | |
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| MOSFET Scaling | |
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| Threshold Voltage Modifications | |
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| Additional Electrical Characteristics | |
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| Radiation and Hot-Electron Effects | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Junction Field-Effect Transistor | |
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| JFET Concepts | |
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| The Device Characteristics | |
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| Nonideal Effects | |
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| Equivalent Circuit and Frequency Limitations | |
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| High Electron Mobility Transistor | |
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| Summary | |
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| Optical Devices | |
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| Optical Absorption | |
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| Solar Cells | |
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| Photodetectors | |
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| Photoluminescence and Electroluminescence | |
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| Light Emitting Diodes | |
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| Laser Diodes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Semiconductor Power Devices | |
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| Power Bipolar Transistors | |
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| Power MOSFETs | |
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| Heat Sinks and Junction Temperature | |
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| The Thyristor | |
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| Summary | |
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| Selected List of Symbols | |
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| System of Units, Conversion Factors, and General Constants | |
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| The Periodic Table | |
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| The Error Function | |
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| "Derivation" of Schrodinger's Wave Equation | |
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| Unit of Energy--The Electron-Volt | |
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| Answers to Selected Problems | |
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| Index | |