Understanding Modern Transistors and Diodes
Understanding Modern Transistors and Diodes
£78.00
GBPWritten in a concise, easy-to-read style, this text for senior undergraduate and graduate courses covers all key topics thoroughly. It is also a useful self-study guide for practising engineers who need a complete, up-to-date review of the subject.
Key features:
• Rigorous theoretical treatment combined with practical detail
• A theoretical framework built up systematically from the Schrödinger Wave Equation and the Boltzmann Transport Equation
• Covers MOSFETS, HBTs and HJFETS
• Uses the PSP model for MOSFETS
• Rigorous treatment of device capacitance
• Describes the operation of modern, high-performance transistors and diodes
• Evaluates the suitability of various transistor types and diodes for specific modern applications
• Covers solar cells and LEDs and their potential impact on energy generation and reduction
• Includes a chapter on nanotransistors to prepare students and professionals for the future
• Provides results of detailed numerical simulations to compare with analytical solutions
• End-of-chapter exercises
• Online lecture slides for undergraduate and graduate courses
- Written in a straightforward, easy-to-read style, combining rigorous theoretical treatment with practical detail
- Evaluates the suitability of various transistor types and diodes for specific modern applications
- Includes end-of-chapter exercises to test understanding, and sets of lecture slides for undergraduate and graduate courses are available online
Product details
January 2010Hardback
9780521514606
354 pages
253 × 178 × 19 mm
0.86kg
191 b/w illus. 17 tables 141 exercises
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Energy band basics
- 3. Electron and hole concentrations
- 4. Thermal equilibrium
- 5. Charge transport
- 6. np-and Np-junction basics
- 7. Solar cells
- 8. Light-emitting diodes
- 9. HBT basics
- 10. MOSFET basics
- 11. HJFET basics
- 12. Transistor capacitances
- 13. Transistors for high-speed logic
- 14. Transistors for high frequencies
- 15. Transistors for memories
- 16. Transistors for high power
- 17. Transistors for low noise
- 18. Transistors for the future
- Appendix A. Physical constants
- Appendix B. Selected material properties
- Appendix C. N-MOSFET parameters
- Index.
