Semiconductor Devices for Beginners
Understanding Device Physics, Microchip Fabrication and Solid-State Semiconductor TheoryBy Weiling Chao
Length13h 14m
About this audiobook
A step-by-step beginner's guide to how semiconductor devices work, from silicon physics and transistors to microchip fabrication, memory and yield.
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Length13 hrs 14 mins
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Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Semiconductor Devices for Beginners
2Foreword
3Preface
4About This Book
5Chapter 1: Why Semiconductors Matter
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61.1 The Chips Inside Everyday Things
71.2 Wafers, Dies, Packages and Boards
81.3 What a Process Node Name Really Means
91.4 Designers, Foundries and the Rest of the Chain
101.5 How This Book Is Organized
11Chapter 2: Materials and Crystals
122.1 Why Material Choice Sets the Rules
132.2 The Silicon Crystal and Covalent Bonding
142.3 Energy Bands and the Band Gap
152.4 Intrinsic Carriers and Temperature
162.5 Compound and Wide-Bandgap Materials
17Chapter 3: Doping, Carriers and Conduction
183.1 Donors, Acceptors and Doped Silicon
193.2 The Fermi Level and Carrier Statistics
203.3 Drift, Mobility and Resistivity
213.4 Diffusion and the Diffusion Current
223.5 Total Current, Generation and Recombination
23Chapter 4: The PN Junction
244.1 Forming the Depletion Region
254.2 Built-In Potential and the Band Picture
264.3 Forward and Reverse Bias
274.4 The Diode Equation and Ideality
284.5 Junction Capacitance
294.6 Avalanche and Zener Breakdown
30Chapter 5: Diodes in Practice
315.1 Rectifiers and Reverse Recovery
325.2 Zener, Schottky and Varactor Diodes
335.3 Light-Emitting Diodes
345.4 Photodiodes and Solar Cells
355.5 Reading a Diode Datasheet
36Chapter 6: Bipolar Junction Transistors
376.1 Structure and Current Gain
386.2 Operating Regions and Output Characteristics
396.3 Amplification and Biasing
406.4 Switching Behaviour and Stored Charge
41Chapter 7: MOS Capacitors and MOSFETs
427.1 The MOS Capacitor and the Three Regimes
437.2 Threshold Voltage and Inversion
447.3 Linear and Saturation Regions
457.4 Channel Length Modulation and Short-Channel Effects
467.5 Scaling Rules and Their Limits
47Chapter 8: CMOS Logic and Memory Cells
488.1 The CMOS Inverter
498.2 Static and Dynamic Power
508.3 Standard Cells and Logic in Silicon
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