Solid State Electronic Devices (5th Edition)

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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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Summary: Best on solid-state devices
Review: This is the BEST textbook on solid-state devices. I used this book in my undergraduate and even in graduate courses. This book is also helpful for any researchers on electronic devices. Students and engineers alike like to refer to this book pretty often as it explains many fundamental ideas in pn junctions which are at the heart of presen-day technology and carries on the concept up to MOS devices. This is not a reference book but it provides the basic training required to learn new devices. A made-easy version of this book is Neaman's text.

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Summary: Just finding equations
Review: What would really improve this text is if lessons towards the end of the text, chapters 6 and on, included the equations from previous chapters so the reader could get a general understanding of the material needed to the problems in the text.
Also, it would be nice if the text included sample problems like the first 20-25 problems at the end of the chapters. Finally, I would like to see calculation of intrinsic amounts of carriers. Every time I do it I get something far from what the text uses in its problems.