Semiconductor basics : a qualitative, non-mathematical explanation of how semiconductors work and how they are used / George Domingo, Berkeley, CA, US. - First edition. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction
Chapter 1 -- The Bohr Atom
Objective of this chapter
1.1- Sinusoidal waves
1.2- The case of the missing lines
1.3- The spectra from gasses and metals
1.4- The elements
1.5- The hydrogen spectrum
1.6- Light is a particle
1.7- The atom's structure
1.8- The Bohr atom
1.9- Summary/Review
Appendix 1.1 -- Some details of the Bohr model
Appendix 1.2 -- Semiconductor materials
Chapter 2 -- Energy Bands
Objective of this chapter
2.1 -- Bringing atoms together
2.2 -- The insulator
2.3 -- The Conductor
2.4 -- The semiconductor
2.5 -- Digression -- A water analogy
2.6 -- The mobility of charges
Summary and conclusions
Appendix 2.1 -- Energy gap in Semiconductors
Appendix 2.2 -- Number of electrons and the Fermi function
Chapter 3 -- Types of Semiconductor
Objectives of this chapter
3.1 -- Semiconductor Materials
3.2 -- Short summary of semiconductor materials
3.2.1 -- Silicon
3.2.2 -- Germanium
3.2.3 -- Gallium Arsenide
3.3 -- Intrinsic Semiconductors
3.4 -- Doped Semiconductors -- n-type
3.5 -- Doped Semiconductors -- p-type
3.6 -- Additional considerations
Conclusion and summary
Appendix 3.1 -- The Fermi levels in doped semiconductors
Appendix 3.2 -- Why all donor electrons go to the conduction band
Chapter 4 -- Infrared detectors
Objectives of this chapter
4.1 -- What is infrared radiation
4.2 -- What our eyes can see
4.3 -- infrared Applications
4.4- Types of infrared radiation
4.5 -- Extrinsic silicon infrared detectors
4.6 -- Intrinsic infrared detectors.
Summary and conclusions
Appendix 4.1 -- Light Diffraction
Appendix 4.2 -- Black Body Radiation
Chapter 5 -- The pn-junction
Objectives of this chapter
5.1 -- The pn-junction
5.2 -- The Semiconductor Diode
5.3 -- The Schottky Diode
5.4 -- The Zener or Tunnel Diode
Conclusions and Summary
Appendix 5.1 -- Fermi levels of a pn junction
Appendix 5.2 -- Diffusion and drift currents
Appendix 5.3 -- The thickness of the transition region
Appendix 5.4 -- Work Function and the Shockley diode
Chapter 6 -- Other Electrical Components
Objective of this chapter
6.1 -- Voltage and Current
6.2 -- The Resistance
6.3 -- The Capacitor
6.4 -- The Inductor
6.5 -- Sinusoidal Voltages
6.6 -- Inductor application
Conclusions and summary
Appendix 6.1 -- Impedance and phase changes
Chapter 7 -- Diode Applications
7.1 -- Solar Cells
7.2 -- Rectifiers
7.3 -- Current Protection
7.4 -- Clamping Circuit
7.5 -- Voltage Clipper
7.6 -- Half-Wave Voltage Doubler
7.7 -- Solar Cells Bypass diodes
7.8 -- Applications of Shockley Diodes
7.9 -- Application of Zener Diodes
Conclusion and summary
Appendix 7.1 -- Details on the voltage doubler
Chapter 8 -- The Transistors
OBCETIVE OF THIS CHAPTER
8.1 -- The concept of the transistor
8.2 - The Bipolar Junction Transistor, BJT
8.3 -- The Junction Field Effect Transistor, JFET
8.4 -- The MOSFET
Conclusions and summary
Chapter 9 -- Transistor Biasing Circuits
Objective of this chapter
9.1 -- Introduction
9.2 -- Emitter Feedback Bias
9.3 -- A simple transistor amplifier
9.4 -- A fixed bias circuit
9.5 -- The Collector bias circuit
9.6 -- Power considerations
9.7 -- Multi-stage transistor amplifiers
9.8 -- Operational amplifier, OpAmp
9.9 -- The ideal OpAmp
Summary and Conclusions
Appendix 9.1 -- Derivation of the stability of Collector feedback
Chapter 10 -- Integrated circuit (IC) fabrication
Objective of this chapter
10.1 -- The basic material
10.2 -- The Boule
10.2.1 -- The Czochralski method
10.2.2 -- The Flow-Zone method
10.3 -- The wafers and epitaxial growth
10.4 -- Photolithography
10.5 -- The fabrication of a pnp transistor on a silicon waver
10.6 -- A digression on doping
10.6.1 -- Thermal diffusion
10.6.2 -- Implantation
10.7 -- Resume our transistor processing
10.7.1 -- The contacts
10.7.2 -- Metallization
10.7.3 -- Multiple interconnects
10.8 -- Fabrication of other components
10.8.1 The integrated resistor
10.8.2 The integrated capacitor
10.8.3 Integrated inductor
10.9 -- Testing and Packaging
10.10 -- Clean rooms
10.11 -- Additional thoughts about processing
Appendix 10.1 -- Miller indices in the diamond structure
Chapter 11 -- Logic circuits
Objectives of this chapter
11.1 -- Boolean algebra
11.2 -- The logic symbols
11.3 -- The electronic inside the symbols
11.3.1 -- Diode implementation
11.3.2 -- CMOS implementation
11.4- The inverter of NOT circuit
11.5 -- The NOR circuit
11.6 -- The NAND circuit
11.7 -- The XNOR or the exclusive NOR
11.8 -- The half adder
11.9 -- The full adder
11.10 -- Adding more than two digital numbers
11.11 -- The subtractor
11.12 -- Digression; flip-flops, latches and shifters
11.13 -- Multiplication and division of binary numbers
11.14 -- Additional comments, speed and power
Conclusion and summary
Appendix 11.1 -- Algebraic formulation of logic modules
Appendix 11.2 -- Detailed analysis of the full adder
Appendix 11.3 -- Complementary numbers
Appendix 11.4 -- Dividing digital numbers
Chapter 12 -- VLSI components
Objectives of this chapter
12.1 -- Multiplexers, MUX
12.2 -- De-multiplexer, DEMUX
12.3 -- Registers
12.4 -- Timing and Waveforms
12.5 -- Memories
12.5.1 -- The Static Random-Access Memory, SRAM
12.5.2 -- The Dynamic Random-Access memory, DRAM
12.5.3 -- Read Only Memory, ROM
12.5.4 -- Programable Read only Memory, PROM
12.6 -- Gate arrays
Conclusions and summary
Appendix 12.1 -- A NAND implementation of a 2 to 1 MUX
Chapter 13 -- Opto-Electronics
Objective of this chapter
13.1 -- Photoconductors
13.2- PIN diodes
13.3 -- Lasers
13.3.1 -- The laser action
13.3.2 -- Solid State lasers
13.3.3 -- Semiconductor Lasers
13.3.4 -- Laser applications
13.4 -- Light Emitting Diodes, LEDs
Summary and Conclusions
Appendix 13.1 -- The detector readout
Chapter 14 -- Microprocessors and computers
14.1 -- The computer
14.1.1 -- The computer architecture
14.1.2 -- The Memories
14.1.3 -- Input and output units
14.1.4 -- The central processing unit, CPU
14.2 -- Microcontrollers
14.3 -- Liquid Crystal Displays, LCDs
14.3.1 -- Liquid Crystal materials
14.3.2 -- The contacts
14.3.3 -- The color Filters
14.
"An accessible guide to how semiconductor electronics work and how they are manufactured, for professionals and interested readers with no electronics engineering background Semiconductor Basics is an accessible guide to how semiconductors work. It is written for readers without an electronic engineering background. Semiconductors are the basis for almost all modern electronic devices. The author, an expert on the topic, explores the fundamental concepts of what a semiconductor is, the different types in use, and how they are different from conductors and insulators. The book has a large number of helpful and illustrative drawings, photos, and figures. The author uses only simple arithmetic to help understand the device operation and applications. The book reviews the key devices that can be constructed using semiconductor materials such as diodes and transistors and all the large electronic systems based on these two component such as computers, memories, LCDs and related technology like Lasers LEDs and infrared detectors. The text also explores integrated circuits and explains how they are fabricated. The author concludes with some projections about what can be expected in the future"--
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