This book presents a set of solved examples on semiconductor device physics. Semiconductor device... more This book presents a set of solved examples on semiconductor device physics. Semiconductor devices is a core subject in electrical engineering and physics curricula. The level of the proposed examples corresponds to a semester course at senior undergraduate or junior graduate level. Readers are expected to have a basic background on quantum and solid state physics, moreover a reasonable mathematical knowledge reaching differential equations is also assumed. There are many excellent text books on semiconductor device physics, however very often the examples are mostly numerical, trying to fix the order of magnitude of the obtained results. In this book, problems with a certain level of complexity are solved and explained step by step presenting at the same time the involved physics. This work does not replace a text book and lecture notes, but it may definitely be a good complement. At the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech) one of the authors, R. Alcubilla, has been lecturing on semiconductor devices at different levels for more than 20 years. In particular together with C. Voz started in 2013 a semester course for engineering physics students at senior undergraduate level. This book collects the exercises of the different written tests since 2013. The level of the students has been always rather high and the acceptation of the course has been also very good. Even if teachers tend to overestimate the motivation of the students, our feeling has been always very positive and the average result of the proposed tests good. We cannot claim the authorship of all the proposed problems. As most professors know, the process for preparing a test is not easy, trying to question about the different parts of the course, equilibrating the difficulties, looking for interesting questions (the definition of interesting questions is subject of discussion between teacher and students). Some of the problems are roughly original, classical ones or fruit of the previous experience of the authors, others are adapted from material found in different books, web sites, etc… R. Alcubilla wants to thank Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech) for a 6 monthssabbatical leave used for writing the biggest part of this book. Finally, we want to thank ourstudents that during these years have “suffered” these exercises.
This book presents a set of solved examples on semiconductor device physics. Semiconductor device... more This book presents a set of solved examples on semiconductor device physics. Semiconductor devices is a core subject in electrical engineering and physics curricula. The level of the proposed examples corresponds to a semester course at senior undergraduate or junior graduate level. Readers are expected to have a basic background on quantum and solid state physics, moreover a reasonable mathematical knowledge reaching differential equations is also assumed. There are many excellent text books on semiconductor device physics, however very often the examples are mostly numerical, trying to fix the order of magnitude of the obtained results. In this book, problems with a certain level of complexity are solved and explained step by step presenting at the same time the involved physics. This work does not replace a text book and lecture notes, but it may definitely be a good complement. At the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech) one of the authors, R. Alcubilla, has been lecturing on semiconductor devices at different levels for more than 20 years. In particular together with C. Voz started in 2013 a semester course for engineering physics students at senior undergraduate level. This book collects the exercises of the different written tests since 2013. The level of the students has been always rather high and the acceptation of the course has been also very good. Even if teachers tend to overestimate the motivation of the students, our feeling has been always very positive and the average result of the proposed tests good. We cannot claim the authorship of all the proposed problems. As most professors know, the process for preparing a test is not easy, trying to question about the different parts of the course, equilibrating the difficulties, looking for interesting questions (the definition of interesting questions is subject of discussion between teacher and students). Some of the problems are roughly original, classical ones or fruit of the previous experience of the authors, others are adapted from material found in different books, web sites, etc… R. Alcubilla wants to thank Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech) for a 6 monthssabbatical leave used for writing the biggest part of this book. Finally, we want to thank ourstudents that during these years have “suffered” these exercises.
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There are many excellent text books on semiconductor device physics, however very often the examples are mostly numerical, trying to fix the order of magnitude of the obtained results. In this book, problems with a certain level of complexity are solved and explained step by step presenting at the same time the involved physics. This work does not replace a text book and lecture notes, but it may definitely be a good complement.
At the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech) one of the authors, R. Alcubilla, has been lecturing on semiconductor devices at different levels for more than 20 years. In particular together with C. Voz started in 2013 a semester course for engineering physics students at senior undergraduate level. This book collects the exercises of the different written tests since 2013.
The level of the students has been always rather high and the acceptation of the course has been also very good. Even if teachers tend to overestimate the motivation of the students, our feeling has been always very positive and the average result of the proposed tests good.
We cannot claim the authorship of all the proposed problems. As most professors know, the process for preparing a test is not easy, trying to question about the different parts of the course, equilibrating the difficulties, looking for interesting questions (the definition of interesting questions is subject of discussion between teacher and students). Some of the problems are
roughly original, classical ones or fruit of the previous experience of the authors, others are adapted from material found in different books, web sites, etc…
R. Alcubilla wants to thank Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech) for a 6 monthssabbatical leave used for writing the biggest part of this book. Finally, we want to thank ourstudents that during these years have “suffered” these exercises.
There are many excellent text books on semiconductor device physics, however very often the examples are mostly numerical, trying to fix the order of magnitude of the obtained results. In this book, problems with a certain level of complexity are solved and explained step by step presenting at the same time the involved physics. This work does not replace a text book and lecture notes, but it may definitely be a good complement.
At the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech) one of the authors, R. Alcubilla, has been lecturing on semiconductor devices at different levels for more than 20 years. In particular together with C. Voz started in 2013 a semester course for engineering physics students at senior undergraduate level. This book collects the exercises of the different written tests since 2013.
The level of the students has been always rather high and the acceptation of the course has been also very good. Even if teachers tend to overestimate the motivation of the students, our feeling has been always very positive and the average result of the proposed tests good.
We cannot claim the authorship of all the proposed problems. As most professors know, the process for preparing a test is not easy, trying to question about the different parts of the course, equilibrating the difficulties, looking for interesting questions (the definition of interesting questions is subject of discussion between teacher and students). Some of the problems are
roughly original, classical ones or fruit of the previous experience of the authors, others are adapted from material found in different books, web sites, etc…
R. Alcubilla wants to thank Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech) for a 6 monthssabbatical leave used for writing the biggest part of this book. Finally, we want to thank ourstudents that during these years have “suffered” these exercises.