Physics of Semiconductors

Semiconductordevicesarenowadayscommonplaceineveryhousehold. Inthe late1940stheinventionofthetransistorwasthestartofarapiddevelopment towards ever faster and smaller electronic components. Complex systems are built with these components. The main driver of this development was the economical bene?t from packing more and more wiring, transistors and fu- tionality on a single chip. Now every human is...