This book provides all the required information for a course in modern device electronics taken by undergraduate electrical engineers. It offers coverage of silicon technology, several topics in basic semiconductor physics, and Hall-effect sensors. The chapters on MOSFET focus on mobility variations and threshold-voltage dependence. Additional topics include VLSI devices, short channel effects, and computer modeling.

Contens:
· Semiconductor Electronics

· Silicon Technology

· Metal-Semiconductor Contacts

· pn Junctions

· Currents in pn Junctions

· Bipolar Transistors I: Basic Properties

· Bipolar Transistors II: Limitations and Models

· Properties of the Metal-Oxide-Silicon System

· Mos Field-Effect Transistors I: Physical Effects and Models

· Mos Field-Effect Transistors II: High-Field Effects

Answers to Selected Problems

Selected List of Symbols

Index