Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices

The condition of the book was great no problems there at all.The text itself is technical to a fault though. Few examples in places and somewhat of a thick read.overall not that bad for a Text book.

Received on time. In very good shape.

The book is written with the assumption that the student already has a solid-state physics background. While the first 1/3 of the book is devoted to the explanation of semiconductor creation methods, mathematics and tradeoffs, the author does a very poor job of accurately explaining material. He rarely offers units for each of his equations listed in the book and does not always tell the reader what each of the variables in the equations represent. Without Wikipedia on hand to help, I never would have gotten past chapter 2."The homework problems are less to help the reader understand the material and more to show the reader how inadequate they are (and how intelligent the author is)." This quotation from the class professor, not myself.The exercises are poorly written (ambiguous) and the authors inconsistencies in vocabulary throughout the text makes doing them harder.

This is an excellent book on optoelectronics. I think it is suited for undergrad and grad students and practicing researchers as well. With reviews on semiconductor fundamentals, junction physics, bandstructure this book contains almost everything that you need to know on optoelectronics. With the in-depth analysis of the optoelectronic devices you can come back to review some of the basic staff that you need to know. I think it is a must buy for optoelectronics/photonics engineers. It is somewhat dated though and needs an updated edition.

If you are an undergraduate, this book is pretty good and it covers a lot of funamentals.If you are a grad student, get Coldren's book - "diode lasers and photonic integrated circuits" or Chuang's "Physics of optoelectronic devices" though the theory there is hard for undergrad. Another good,easier book is "Principles and Applications of Optical Communications" by Max Ming-Kang Liu. The most recent book on the theory is "Physics of optoelectronics"-- very good book.There are some errors in this book such as the rate eq for lasers. The real strength of this book is that it contains a lot of real structures, materials, and applications. Also, the semiconductor part is very complete. However, an updated version would be ideal.

The binding of this book completely came apart within days of buying it. It's a cheap book. Now I have single pages that I have to try to keep together.

Beginning of book reviews key principles of quantum theory and necessary semiconductor processes to understand device applications. The text is comprehensive in specifying ways to quantify all aspects of optoelectronics and caters to the beginning student as well as the researching professional

Unfortunately my professor used this book for the class. The book is not clear, almost nothing is demonstrated, the index is very short and incomplete, the exercises are not concize, it lacks a lot of theory, and many important devices such as the second harmonic generator are not covered in the book. If I could turn back in time I would never spent a cent on this book.

Whoever wrote this garbage should not be writing books, everything is explained in the most haphazard way. The book organization is just a mess, and this book is barely comprehensible. I bought this because of a course. Regretted when I purchased it, regretted it again after using it.

The book is almost new!Though I have to say this book itself is not a well-organized one. The semiconductor theory is kind of confusing since it uses approximations from time to time. Thus there are two kinds of books available in the market, one focuses on the concepts, and the other goes deep into the theories including a lot of computations. Obviously this book intends to be the second kind, but it fails to go that deep in the theory, I mean it still skip some essential processes during proof which makes it hard to follow. But since it introduces so many mathematics, the concepts themselves become vague especially for those beginners. In conclusion, I guess the author meant to write a graduate level book, but he did not have time to clarify every thing, so it is not enough for a graduate students focusing on this topic, at the same time, this is not a good introduction for undergraduate students who just have interests in this region but not willing to know too much. If you already know a lot about semiconductors, this book can serve as a material for a quick recap.I bought this one simply because it is the required textbook of my graduate course and I need it to finish the homework.Anyway, the product itself should not be blamed. The book is in good condition. The delivery is pretty quick. So I gave 4 stars.

Good book, the contents are not written properly. It's very difficult, don't know which is the main topics and subtopics in the contents, it's very confusing.

Libro arrivato in ottime condizioni. Molto utile e specifico sui semiconduttori

Excellent