ECE-606: Solid State Devices

Additional References

Books on Solid State Physics:

For additional discussion on crystal structure and energy band diagram, see

• Nanohub website (nanohub.org) also has an educational tool called ABACUS that we will be using for HW this semester.
• C. Kittle, Introduction to Solid State Physics, 6th or 7th Edition, Wiley. Chapters 1 and 7.
• Ashcroft/Mermin, Solid State Physics, Chapters 4, 8, 9,10
• For an interesting discussion on quasi-crystals, see R. Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind, pp. 132-138 and pp. 435-440.
• The following website contains a interesting visual description of the material we covered from Chapter 1-4 Simulation Tool
• For a interesting take on early history of solid-state physics and to see how the concepts you are learning in the class evolved in 1930 and 1940, you can read the following papers. Paper I, Paper II
• For a modern perspective on MOSFET, you can read the following Scientific American Article and Article published in Nature. Scientific American, Nature Paper

General References on MOSFETs and Bipolar Transistors

• Y. Taur and T.H. Ning, Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 1998.
• S.M. Sze and K.K. Ng, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Wiley-Interscience, New York. 2007.
• S. Tiwari, Compound Semiconductor Device Physics, Academic Press, 1991 (May be out of print, but the library will have a copy).