Electronic Properties of Materials

About this book

This text on the electrical optical magnetic and thermal properties of materials stresses concepts rather than mathematical formalism. Suitable for advanced undergraduates it is intended for materials and electrical engineers who want to gain a fundamental understanding of alloys semiconductor devices lasers magnetic materials and so forth. The book is organized to be used in a one-semester course; to that end each section of applications after the introduction to the fundamentals of electron theory can be read independently of the others. Many examples from engineering practice serve to provide an understanding of common devices and methods. Among the modern applications covered are: high-temperature superconductors optoelectronic materials semiconductor device fabrication xerography magneto-optic memories and amorphous ferromagnetics. The fourth edition has been revised and updated with an emphasis on the applications sections which now cover devices of the next generation of electronics.