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Summary: THE seminal introductory text for students and professionals
Review: Dr. Ben G. Streetman, now Dean of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has put together a thorough, yet understandable, introductory text to the important field of semiconductor devices. This book has been developed from his many years of teaching this subject to undergraduate and graduate students. The book proceeds from the basic physics of solid state junctions to the operation and electronic properties of advanced devices such as CMOS transistors and semiconductor lasers. Each section contains worked numerical examples, comprehensive review problems, and relevant citations for the reader who wishes to further investigate the subject matter. Streetman's conversational style works well with presenting sometimes difficult material in a very straightforward manner. You can almost picture yourself sitting in some Texas Hill Country barbecue restaurant, having Streetman explain the carrier behavior of a transistor under different biasing conditions, while having a plate of ribs and a few Shiner Bocks! The easy going style of this book does not diminish the depth of analysis of the material, and the reader comes away with a solid, functional understanding of the subject and is able to advance to more specialized texts. This book is also part of a teaching tool which includes lecture notes and worked solutions to problems making it a joy for first time professors teaching a course in this subject. This book is truly a classic and far surpasses its contemporaries in the field in terms of readability and its teaching power! Students will still be using this book (or some form of it) in one hundred years!
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Summary: Nebulous purpose
Review: I am a Senior in EE at the University of Florida, and I used this book in a semiconductor class. This book is too much for beginners, and too less for advanced students. They give some helpful equations, but they NEVER explain the concepts nicely. I essentially went through the course living off of equation sheets. Eventually, after using the same ones over and over, I started to undrestand what it was saying, but this book is useless in UNDERSTANDING the material, for it assumes you already know it.
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Summary: I don't usually read every book twice!
Review: I am a undergraduate student in Dept.of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dept. in Bilkent University, Turkey. I read this book for my Electronics I course, and then for my Digital Electronics course for refreshment. It not only covers the material well, it is also a good-looking book, attracting you to read. There are very interesting, micro-scale pictures of chips in it, motivating you to learn the concepts.
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Summary: OK for intermediate level
Review: I just finished a course in which this textbook was used. I found that the descriptions started at a non-introductory level and were not in-depth enough. I also thought more graphics were needed to illustrate how and where the e- and h+ move during different regions of transistor operation. I bought R.F. Pierret's "Semiconductor Device Fundamentals" as a supplementary text and ended up reading and understanding that much more.
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Summary: Poor conceptually and lacking problem solv. techniques.
Review: I took semiconductor devices at UCF. This book was very helpful to me in understanding the matrial. As long as you do the required reading and spend a decent amount of time understanding the concepts you will have no problem. One of the things that comes in handy is the list of definitions in appendix 1. If you don't know the meaning of a symbol it will usually be defined there.
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Summary: very straight forward
Review: I took semiconductor devices at UCF. This book was very helpful to me in understanding the matrial. As long as you do the required reading and spend a decent amount of time understanding the concepts you will have no problem. One of the things that comes in handy is the list of definitions in appendix 1. If you don't know the meaning of a symbol it will usually be defined there.
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Summary: Streetman is Awesome!
Review: I used this book (4th Ed.) for the solid state device class at The University of Illinois (U-C), as a junior. Streetman offers excellent explanations and it is a great reference to me even now! While you have to read it a few times to fully grasp the subject, that is a function of the material and not the writing. When the 5th Ed. came out, I instantly went out and purchased it! The advanced device sections were updated, while the basics were left virtually untouched. In keeping with the original, Banerjee provides clear explanations of more recent phenomana - mainly in the MOSFET section. This came in handy studying for the qual!!! Personally, Streetman and Pierret are the only device books I need.
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Summary: This book is not for those trying to learn this material
Review: This book has little to no examples and questions that are unrelated to any material covered in the book. If you want a book that is extremely difficult to learn anything from buy this book!
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Summary: Nice readable text
Review: This book is straight and to-the-point. Anyone who picks up this book up will not be disappointed with it. All concepts are explained in a very accessible and comprehensible manner.
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Summary: Poor conceptually and lacking problem solv. techniques.
Review: This is one of those books that looks serious but you start reading it and what you find is "holes" and "gaps": there is always something either missing or represented in an "upside-down" way. This book might be useful only if you already know this stuff and using it for reviewing.
- No solutions (not even to selected problems) and just few insufficient examples inside the chapters.
- No summaries and no prefaces: as you read, you never know where the author is going- and in the end of a chapter(which are too long) you alreay can't remember what you've read.
- Conceptual parts are either oversimplified, explained ambiguously or simply omitted
- Lots of equations/formulas but the author doesn't help in making them more intuitive or meaningful; also derivations are far from the best
- Even the logical order and organization of contents is confusing
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