Principles of Electronic Materials and Devices is one of the few books in the market that has a broad coverage of electronic materials that today's scientists and engineers need. The general treatment of the textbook and various proofs leverage at a semiquantitative level without going into detailed physics.
This is the most often book I've read until this time. It contains less basic principles of materials science than MSE book: an Introduction by William Callister.
I love only one part of this book since i'm thoroughly working and studying in semiconductor field. Yes, I love semiconductor. It has back-end and front-end basic principles. But, this book only explain more about front-end process, actually not about process, but the physics.
It contains intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductor on this specific chapter and explains about electron and hole creation, energy band diagram, p-n junction and some application. At first, I can't even understand about the terms but now I'm a little bit understand, eventhough I've already read this book a hundred times, but I'm not that genious to understand all the theories and basics.:D
The book has broad coverage of electronic materials and devices. It is a difficult task for scientist author to write hard subject such as physics of semiconductors and make them easy to understand. However, this book gives you all information needed to comprehend fundamental of electronic material, and it is relatively easy to follow.