This Books provides a good idea in Semiconductor material for Physics Major students and Engineering students. This explains about solid state physics.

Kiran Shrestha
Univ of Massachusetts Boston

We use it as our textbook for an undergraduate course at Carnegie Mellon University.
This book is fundamental enough. Once you are patient enough to read it, you will get a lot.
It teaches concepts step by step, very good for beginners!

I recieved a book in excellent condition at a very good price. I would definately purchase from this company in the future and recommend that you do the same.

Pierret explains the fun details of device physics in a way that makes sense. Discussion on a certain device (PN diode, BJT, MOSFET) usually starts with holes and electrons moving around and basic equations are slowly built. Deviations from the ideal are then discussed as well as methods to minimize those deviations.

After reading this textbook, I feel pretty confident about my understanding of device physics. Although I am still an undergraduate and probably shouldn't think of myself as a hotshot since this book is very basic, Pierret really explained the material well and I feel good about what I learned from this book.

No other textbook in any subject comes close to the clarity that this textbook provides. Math textbooks never give enough examples, physics textbooks never seem to be in enough detail, CS textbooks either overload you with theory that's not well explained or excessive examples that beat around the bush. However, this textbook provides just enough examples to clarify crucial subtleties, starts from the basics of holes and electrons moving around, and slowly builds on the basics to explain more advanced topics. It just makes sense if you read it.

Of course no textbook is perfect and not everything will make sense the first time you read it. Sometimes something will not make sense in a textbook and no matter how many times you reread it, no matter how many times you bang your head against the table, and no matter how many weeks go by, it still will not make sense. But this textbook is different. Pierret provides a good foundation of device physics so after the concepts bounce around in your head for a few weeks, everything will make sense.

What's also really great about this textbook is that all you need to know before you read this textbook is F=ma, a bit of electrostatics, some basic calculus, and common sense. This intro book really is an intro book.

I for one like the fact that this book goes into JFET's first... then MOSFETS.. because that is the natural transition...

who cares which ones is more useful... it's all about the right way to educate the reader...

and why would you want the book to go into a real mosfet's principles.... then approximations of the ideal...

a normal person would want to learn the approximations of an ideal device.. before going into the more detailed analysis of the practical device...

excellent book.. in my opinion

Pierret is one of those rare scientific writers that can clearly convey concepts! This book is essentially a compilation of his modular series - but slightly less detailed. In it, he provides all the basics of semiconductors and devices (PN diodes, BJTs, FETs and so on). He also treats some of the intermediate device phenomena such as short channel effects with his usual clarity.

For my money, all I need are Pierret and Streetman!!

Pretty good introductory book. The small individual series by the same author is more in depth and I liked those better.

This book is unique in its pedagogical details:tables of formulas, tables describing what idea a problem tests for,tables of technical terms, three review sections spaced evenly through the book with sets of open-book and closed-book problems and their answers. The MATLAB exercises are a joke, and don't take advantage of this tool.

Although much effort has been taken to descirbe the material and provide lots of feedback to the reader about how well they are "getting" it, this book has absolutely nothing in it to "sell" the material as interesting or practical. Like crosswords, either you love it because you were born that way, or your boss told you to learn it, or you're not part of the audience.

overall a very good book. by the way, is there a solution manual for this book that covers all the assigned problems. i think the problems are hard enough.