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Quantum mechanical phenomena - including energy bands, energy gaps, holes, and effective mass - constitute the majority of properties unique to semiconductor materials. Understanding how these properties affect the electrical characteristics of semiconductors, is vital for engineers working with today's nanoscale devices. Designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses, "Principles of Semiconductor Devices" covers the dominant practical applications of semiconductor device theory, an...

Surface-Ionization Drift-Spectrometry is devoted to a new drift-spectrometry method using surface ionization of nitrogen-, phosphorus-, arsenic- and sulfur-containing organics. New theoretical approaches are described that successfully combine a surface-ionization source and a drift spectrometer of coaxial type to obtain multi-parameter detection of organic molecules in a single instrument. This reference examines various versions of the device and the model set of nitrogen, phosphorus, arseni...

The Fourth Edition of Solid State Electronics offers students concise, clear, and accurate material for their future careers in electronics technology. This successful text covers electronic topics, along with their practical applications. Basic theory is presented in a straightforward manner along with easily understood examples and review questions. This well-planned title, with its two-color interior, includes hundreds of review questions and problems.

An up-to-date, comprehensive guide to heterojunction bipolar transistor technology. Owing to their superior performance in microwave and millimeter-wave applications, heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) have become a major force in mobile and wireless communications. This book offers an integrated treatment of SiGe, GaAs, and InP HBTs, presenting a much-needed overview of HBTs based on different materials systems-their fabrication, analysis, and testing procedures. Highly respected expert...

As sensors become cheaper, smaller, and easier to power, they are becoming truly ubiquitous. But searching for information about sensors today is a huge pain, since most of the relevant facts are only available in technical spreadsheets. The Field Guide to Sensors provides a top-down view of the entire sensor ecosystem, organized to help you quickly zero in on sensors that are the best match for your application. Ideal for the growing entrepreneurial/research community, including professional el...

Introduction to Solid-State Electronics combines a modern presentation of semiconductor physics with a description of the principles of semiconductor devices. It unites the authors extensive teaching and research experience with the requirements of an introductory graduate course in Solid-State Electronics for engineering students. Since a crystal is an object of high symmetry, some simple techniqueswhich do not require knowledge of the mathematical groups at the professional levelare used for...

This volume presents a comprehensive discussion of the design of passive circuits, solid state devices and microwave solid state circuits. Topics covered include: transmission lines and lumped elements; resonators; impedance matching networks; hybrids and couplers; filters; active and passive solid state devices; oscillators; amplifiers; detectors and mixers; microwave control circuits; frequency multipliers and dividers; computer-aided design; microwave integrated circuits; and future trends in...

Aiming to provide students with a sound understanding of existing devices in order to develop the basic tools with which they can later learn about applications and the latest devices, this study incorporates the basics of semiconductor materials and conduction processes in solids. It also introduces and relates the most commonly used semiconductor terms and concepts to a broad range of devices. In addition, the work presents the study of solid state devices including both silicon and compound s...

This book provides chemists with technical insight on pyrotechnics and explosives. It emphasizes basic chemical principles and practical, hands-on knowledge in the preparation of energetic materials. It examines the interactions between and adaptations of pyrotechnics to changing technology in areas such as obscuration science and low-signature flame emission. The updated third edition discusses chemical and pyrotechnic principles, components of high-energy materials, elements of ignition, propa...

In this work, the reliability of HfO2 (hafnium oxide) with poly gate and dual metal gate electrode (Ru-Ta alloy, Ru) was investigated. Hard breakdown and soft breakdown, particularly the Weibull slopes, were studied under constant voltage stress. Dynamic stressing has also been used. It was found that the combination of trapping and detrapping contributed to the enhancement of the projected lifetime. The results from the polarity dependence studies showed that the substrate injection exhibited a...

Switch-Mode Power Converters introduces an innovative, highly analytical approach to symbolic, closed-form solutions for switched-mode power converter circuits. This is a highly relevant topic to power electronics students and professionals who are involved in the design and analysis of electrical power converters. The author uses extensive equations to explain how solid-state switches convert electrical voltages from one level to another, so that electronic devices (e.g., audio speakers, CD pla...

This conference is a global forum for presentation advancements in solid-state circuits. The proceeding is intended for the continuing education of engineers working in integrated circuit design, and offers the opportunity to network with experts in the field."

Modelling Methodologies in Analogue Integrated Circuit Design provides a holistic view of modelling for analogue, high frequency, mixed signal, and heterogeneous systems for designers working towards improving efficiency, reducing design times, and addressing the challenges of representing aging, variability, and other technical challenges at the nanometre scale. The book begins by introducing the concept, history, and development of circuit design up to the present day. The first...

Why simply play music or go online when you can use your iPhone or iPad for some really fun projects, such as building a metal detector, hacking a radio control truck, or tracking a model rocket in flight? Learn how to build these and other cool things by using iOS device sensors and inexpensive hardware such as Arduino and a Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Shield. This hands-on book shows you how to write simple applications with techBASIC, an Apple-approved development environment that runs on iOS d...

The problem of the electronic structure of solid matter is addressed in terms of multiple scattering theory, starting from a short review of local density functional theories, the properties of Schrodinger and Dirac Hamiltonians for a central field, and resolvents and Green functions. Throughout this book, both ordered and disordered systems are considered, as well as non-relativistic and relativistic schemes. Also discussed are the direct applications of multiple scattering to important aspects...

Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor has become a standard in academia and industry. Extensively revised and updated, the third edition of this highly acclaimed text provides a thorough treatment of the MOS transistor-the key element of modern microelectronic chips.