Solid State Devices

Contents Preface Part 1 1 Crystal Structures 2 Energy-Band Theory Of Solids 3 Carrier Transport In Semiconductors 4 Excess Carriers In Semiconductors 5 Pn Junction Diodes Part 2 6 Electrical Breakdown In Pn Junctions 7 Bipolar Junction Transistors Part 3 8 The Field-Effect Transistor 9 The Unijunction Transistor 10 Silicon-Controlled Rectifier 11 The Triode Ac Switch Triac 12 The Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor Appendix A Appendix B Random Viva-Voce Questions Answers To Exercises Index  Designed as a text for undergraduate students of engineering in Electrical Electronics and Computer Science and IT disciplines as well as undergraduate students BSc of physics and electronics as also for postgraduate students of physics and electronics this compact and accessible text endeavours to simplify the theory of solid state devices so that even an average student will be able to understand the concepts with ease The authors Prof Somanathan Nair and Prof SR Deepa with their rich and long experience in teaching the subject provide a detailed discussion on such topics as crystal structures of semiconductor materials Miller indices energy-band theory of solids energy level diagrams and mass action law Besides they give a masterly analysis of topics such as direct and indirect gap materials Fermi-Dirac statistics and electrons in semiconductors Finally they deal with Hall effect PN junction diodes Zener and avalanche breakdowns Schottky-barrier diodes bipolar junction transistors MOS field-effect transistors Early effect Shockley diodes SCRs TRIAC and IGBTs 392 pp.…