Microelectronics: An Integrated Approach

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Summary: No a very good book for beginners!!!
Review: This is a terrible book for beginners in electrical engineering. It makes even the simplest topics difficult to understand. The attempt of the book was to give readers a broad view of electrical engineering, about device of many kinds, but what it actually did was "scaring" students away. Absolutely the worst book for introduction to devices..... a good starting book would be something like the one written by Pierret F Robert......... <<<<<PB>>>>

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Summary: The best derivations for PN, BJT,MOS cap and MOSFET !!!
Review: This is one of the best books explaining the pn junction, bipolar transistors, MOS capacitor , and the MOSFET. The derivation are extremely clear and logical,and every question that you think of is answered in the next line. This book is for someone who already have taken some course in electronics, and who really wants some solid understanding of the devices, all that without being a genious in semiconductor physics. Gauss's low, and KVL is almost all that is needed. Derivations are extremely clear, and thorough.

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Summary: Absolutely Terrible
Review: This is the worst textbook that I have ever read. The authors make way too many assumptions in deriving their equations. Also, their approximations seem very sketchy and go without proper justification. All of these assumptions and approximations make it near impossible to understand anything, and so the student is just left with a bunch of meaningless equations. The end-of-chapter problems and excercises thus become just plug-and-chug, and they teach the student absolutely nothing about semiconductor devices. The problems are only difficult in that the student must search through the 150 or so gigantic equations in each chapter to find the correct one to plug the numbers into. No insight is gained.

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Summary: Clear and very readable
Review: Very clear and very nice work for device electrostatics, starts from primitive relations.