Optical processes in semiconductors (Prentice-Hall electrical engineering series. Solid state physical electronics series)

By Jacques I. Pankove

Book Overview

Comprehensive text and reference covers all phenomena involving light in semiconductors, emphasizing modern applications in semiconductor lasers, electroluminescence, photodetectors, photoconductors, photoemitters, polarization effects, absorption spectroscopy, more. Numerous problems. 339 illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136380239
• ISBN13: 9780136380238
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Reveals basic secrets of semiconductors :)

This book for me is a "book of revealing semiconductor secrets" which includes good in-depth details of fundamental semiconductors that majority of semiconductor books, published in last 10-15 years do not include. Since it was written over 30 years or so back, it includes basic stuff, which is what your advisor or lecturer at university "expects" you to know or understand without a problem (of course in reality nothing is easy unless one knows about it and this book, I feel, does provides those basic answers :o)

Easy to understand its discussion

A very elegant, eloquent text on its subject. Explains the major physical processes very clearly, without drowning you in tons of mathematics. The sheer clarity of Pankove's exposition is the greatest appeal of this book. After reading this, you may wish to go onto heftier tomes that delve into greater detail. But consider starting here.While the text dates from 1976, its explanations of optical phenomena are still valid. Don't consider it outdated.