"…The material covers a range of device applications … The book is written in a narrative style, making the text at once accessible and easy to read … the text retains sufficient rigor in the derivations … the book is rather pleasing to read and is significantly more accessible that the weighty tomes that constitute the orthodoxy in semiconductor device physics … worked examples … form a useful set of mathematical and numerical illustrations throughout the book. … "-Physical Sciences Educational Reviews, Vol. 7, Issue 1, June 2006"Greg Parker's book is eminently readable…the quantum mechanics is introduced in easily digestible chunks and backed with well written explanations and lots of examples..."-Dr. K. Kirby, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK

• ATOMS AND BONDING. ENERGY BANDS AND EFFECTIVE MASS. CARRIER CONCENTRATIONS IN SEMICONDUCTORS. CONDUCTION IN SEMICONDUCTORS. GUNN DIODE. P-n JUNCTION. LED, PHOTODETECTORS AND SOLAR-CELL. BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR. FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS. THE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE QUANTUM THEORY. APPENDICES. INDEX.

"…The material covers a range of device applications … The book is written in a narrative style, making the text at once accessible and easy to read … the text retains sufficient rigor in the derivations … the book is rather pleasing to read and is significantly more accessible that the weighty tomes that constitute the orthodoxy in semiconductor device physics … worked examples … form a useful set of mathematical and numerical illustrations throughout the book. … "-Physical Sciences Educational Reviews, Vol. 7, Issue 1, June 2006"Greg Parker's book is eminently readable…the quantum mechanics is introduced in easily digestible chunks and backed with well written explanations and lots of examples..."-Dr. K. Kirby, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK

• ATOMS AND BONDING. ENERGY BANDS AND EFFECTIVE MASS. CARRIER CONCENTRATIONS IN SEMICONDUCTORS. CONDUCTION IN SEMICONDUCTORS. GUNN DIODE. P-n JUNCTION. LED, PHOTODETECTORS AND SOLAR-CELL. BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR. FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS. THE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE QUANTUM THEORY. APPENDICES. INDEX.

"…The material covers a range of device applications … The book is written in a narrative style, making the text at once accessible and easy to read … the text retains sufficient rigor in the derivations … the book is rather pleasing to read and is significantly more accessible that the weighty tomes that constitute the orthodoxy in semiconductor device physics … worked examples … form a useful set of mathematical and numerical illustrations throughout the book. … "-Physical Sciences Educational Reviews, Vol. 7, Issue 1, June 2006"Greg Parker's book is eminently readable…the quantum mechanics is introduced in easily digestible chunks and backed with well written explanations and lots of examples..."-Dr. K. Kirby, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK

• ATOMS AND BONDING. ENERGY BANDS AND EFFECTIVE MASS. CARRIER CONCENTRATIONS IN SEMICONDUCTORS. CONDUCTION IN SEMICONDUCTORS. GUNN DIODE. P-n JUNCTION. LED, PHOTODETECTORS AND SOLAR-CELL. BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR. FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS. THE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE QUANTUM THEORY. APPENDICES. INDEX.