IEEE Fellow B G.Streetman的书——Solid State Electronic Devices, 4th Ed.

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Solid State Electronic Devices
by Ben G. Streetman  

                               
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[size=120%]Solid State Electronic Devices
By Ben G. Streetman


Publisher:   Prentice Hall
Number Of Pages:   462
Publication Date:   1995-02-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0131587676
ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780131587670
Binding:   Hardcover


Summary: painful.
Rating: 3
Wordy. Hard to understand. Meandering.

As a beginner I find this book difficult and wordy and all those other adjectives. Unfortunately my university uses this book exclusively.


Summary: Intensive and extensive
Rating: 5
If you are an EE sophomore/junior or senior and want to buy a book on semiconductor physics or devices that is both comprehensive in its depth and coverage of topics, I'd highly recommend this book. Its explanation of the working of FETs is very lucid and takes you all the way up to III-V HEMTs; similarly derivation of drift-diffusion/continuity equations for BJTs are explained in great detail and advanced devices like HBTs are also covered. Furthermore, if you are confused about energy band diagrams, this book is for you.
Let me briefly compare it with other similar books:
1- Semiconductor devices --Physics and Technology, 2nd edition by S. M. Sze--Standard, very good, but a little advanced textbook on semiconductors. Its explanation of FETs working and its assoicated band diagrams is not very comprehensive. Semiconductor Devices: Physics and Technology, 2nd Edition
2- Semiconductor Device fundamentals by R. F. Peirret-- An excellent book on the fundamentals, especially concepts of band diagrams, but again I found its coverage of FET devices not as good as that of Streetman. Semiconductor Device Fundamentals
3- Physics of semiconductor devices by M. Shur-- Shur is an expert on III-V devices modelling and simulations, but for fundamentals of semiconductor devices I won't recommend this to a sophomore! Physics of Semiconductor Devices
4- Semiconductor Device Electronics by Grung-- An excellent book with very good coverage of FETs, but a little more advanced than Streetman. Its explanation of band diagrams and discussion on potential, voltage, electric field, capacitance and their inter-relationships is very intuitive and clear. Semiconductor-Device Electronics (Holt Rinehart and Winston Series in Electrical Engineering)


Summary: Im a little worried
Rating: 2
I just finished reading chapter one. I know it is quite early to make judgements, but already I'm starting to feel uneasy. As someone who has always enjoyed physics and math(and done well) I feel a little more insight into what is trying to be explained would be great. Im a student at the authors institution so I think thats why we have to use this book. I agree with others that there is a lot of waisted commentary so far, but it may prove to be usefull later. It just seems like a lot is thrown into one chapter and doesn't really mix well. More time, or more explanation about what is trying to be explained would greatly benefit the first chapter.


Summary: Pretty Good Overall
Rating: 4
I'm an undergrad physics/engineering student. I thought this book was reasonably well written and clear. It could benefit from more example problems, and some solution techniques.
Also, I like to have my textbooks be at a slightly higher level than the associated class. This book kind of fell short of that mark in some cases (particularly with heterojunctions and optoelectronics).
Another observation, which isn't really a complaint, is that the book is written as a textbook rather than a reference. The formulas and charts are presented in logical sequence with the text, which makes it nice to read, but leads to a lot of paging to find that graph of mobilities vs. doping, or the formulas for the currents through a BJT, etc... (Kind of the opposite of Sze, where the formulas are collected nicely, but the exposition is virtually nonexistant).
A final thing that somewhat annoyed me, but didn't really detract from the book, was that the author insisted on using Laplace transforms to analyze some things. Which is a bit overkill for solving things like y''=y.
Overall, it's a good book, which explains the underlying concepts clearly.


Summary: Wordy, some explanations are not clear, can be better.
Rating: 3
I finished chapter 7. The authors do not show each step how to get the equations. Instead, a lot of math steps are missing. Unless you are good at math and recall all the fundamental physics equations, you will spend a lot of time to derive the equations by yourself. Without derive the equations, you can only accept the results without any insight. This book tries to cover introduction materials and more advanced materials.

There is another problem. There are obvious errors. On page 38, the equations are not even printed out completely.

This book is very wordy. It can be much concise without losing any content.

For more advance semiconductor book, read Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits by Richard Muller, Berkeley. It is one of the best semiconductor textbook I have read.

Another reviewer said the book used Laplace transform. I finished chapter 7, I could not find any Laplace transform. I am wondering if he reviewed the wrong book.

Chapter 7 is good because it has covered a lot of applications and physics of Bipolar. However, chapter 7 still suffers the same problems I have mentioned above. It is not a bad book but it could be better.

I am sure the author (Indian professor) are good in the field He just needs to be more concise to explain the concepts and derive the equations in more details.

[ 本帖最后由 lotusky 于 2008-5-29 12:18 编辑 ]

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