Principles of Electrical Engineering Materials and Devices, Revised Edition

by Safa O. Kasap

Principles of Electrical Engineering Materials and Devices, Revised Edition, is designed for a course on electrical engineering materials. The author has not added or removed sections to render this edition a second edition. However, a number of sections, illustrations, examples and problems have been revised and updated in the current revised edition. The revisions have improved the rigor without sacrificing the original semiquantitative approach that the students liked. For example, the thermoelectric effect now includes the Mott-Jones index (x) which is normally treated at the graduate level but has been introduced here through a semiquantitative discussion to explain the true sign of the Seebeck coefficient in metals (one of the most difficult graduate topics in quantum mechanics of metals). Overall, there were over some three hundred individual changes to improve the textbook. The text now includes the Electronic Materials and Devices CD-ROM. The CD includes color overhead transparency diagrams, an illustrated dictionary, Chapter 9: Optical Properties of Materials, and additional topics and solved problems. The book is found in the department of Electrical Engineering but can also be found in the department of Materials Science, and sometimes both. It might also be found in Engineering Physics, Applied Physics, and Physics departments. It is often taught between a basic electronic circuits course taught in the junior year and the semiconductors course usually taught in the senior year. This text does a superb job of "bridging" the gap between these two courses. It will is suitable for both one- and two-semester courses. By focusing only on those topics relevant to materials that make up electrical devices, the book offers students a deeper and more meaningful discussion of this material than is offered in general materials science textbooks. The coverage is up-to-date and the applications are of special relevance to students of electronics.

Genres: Textbooks, Engineering, Science

704 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1996

Reviews

[Rudy Sihombing · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

[Aimme · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.