2 months ago
It turns out that this is a part of an entire series of textbooks focused on semiconductors. https://www.worldscientific.com/series/neelns
As the editors note, this series is meant to be an intellectual successor to the Semiconductor Electronics Education Committee (SEEC) books that were published in the 1960s.
2 months ago
The best class I took in EE school was the 400 level course on this material.
Mathematically had us working from Schrödinger to LEDs and Transistors over the course of 4 months. Changed my whole perspective on shit.
2 months ago
> Mathematically had us working from Schrödinger to LEDs and Transistors over the course of 4 months.
What were the books used for this?
2 months ago
The professor's in-progress manuscript. Sorry, but I didn't retain any information from then in order to look it up, that was 20 years ago.
2 months ago
A slightly different audience, probably, but I was greatly assisted by Intuitive IC Electronics by Thomas Fredriksen.
https://www.amazon.com/Intuitive-electronics-sophisticated-e...
2 months ago
Prof. Lundstrom is a giant in semiconductors and it’s exciting to see him publish this book.
2 months ago
A few years ago I took his course on thermoelectricity and really liked his way of teaching. The videos were short and to the point and yet gave me all that I needed to know about the topic.
Here's the link in case anyone s interested
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtkeUZItwHK5y6qy1GFxa4Z4R...
2 months ago
As someone unfamiliar with this field, I'm amazed at how readable this is. Must be a great professor.
2 months ago
This would be both math and physics and chemistry?
2 months ago
Often you would study this type of material in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
2 months ago
And Physics, but probably not Chemistry.
2 months ago
It's touched on in chemistry, generally under the field of materials science. After all that's the bastard child of physics and chemistry that semiconductors fall under.
I say "generally" because obviously physical chemistry and inorganic chemistry also overlap with it a bit at the edges.