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Covers the whole field of the electrical properties of materials, including device applications
Includes problems and worked solutions to support student learning
Covers recent applications in dielectrophoresis, Raman spectroscopy, thermoelectricity, and pyroelectricity
Appendices on memory elements and medical imaging
Solutions manual available on request from the OUP website
New to this Edition:
Updates on a number of topics including graphene, building in the third dimension, spintronics, light emitting diodes, superconductivity
New sections on wide band gap semiconductors, fibre lasers, laser printers, photoacoustics, magnetoelectrics, biferroics, magnetoreception, and Positron Emission Tomography
New derivation (tight binding approximation) added to the three existing derivations on band theory.
Updated sections on semiconductor technology, semiconductor devices, nanoelectronics, plasma etching, ferroelectric materials, and spintronics



An informal and highly accessible writing style, a simple treatment of mathematics, and clear guide to applications have made this book a classic text in electrical and electronic engineering. The fundamental ideas relevant to the understanding of the electrical properties of materials are emphasized; in addition, topics are selected in order to explain the operation of devices having applications (or possible future applications) in engineering. The mathematics, kept deliberately to a minimum, is well within the grasp of undergraduate students. This is achieved by choosing the simplest model that can display the essential properties of a phenomenom, and then examining the difference between the ideal and the actual behaviour.

The whole text is designed as an undergraduate course. However most individual sections are self contained and can be used as background reading in graduate courses, and for interested persons who want to explore advances in microelectronics, lasers, nanotechnology, and several other topics that impinge on modern life.



Table of Contents
1: The electron as a particle
2: The electron as a wave
3: The electron
4: The hydrogen atom and the periodic table
5: Bonds
6: The free electron theory of metals
7: The band theory of solids
8: Semiconductors
9: Principles of semiconductor devices
10: Dielectric materials
11: Magnetic materials
12: Lasers
13: Optoelectronics
14: Superconductivity
15: Metamaterials