Transistors: Find Best Book for Detailed Study

[Bassalisk]

Hello,

Since internet is FULL of different representations , some of them mention this and don't mention that...

I need a good recommendation for a book. A book where transistors are worked in detail, and that has all right assumptions.

I found on internet a lot of stuff. Most of them do agree on everything, but since transistors are, in my opinion, a sensitive topic, i would like to study this from a checked book.

Thanks

 

[Studiot]

Hi Bassilisk,

You first need to tell us what your point of view is

Are you studying transistors from a physics points of view. That is how they work internally and so on.

Or are you studying them from manufacturing point of view ?

Or are you studying them from an electronic circuit point of view. That is how do we use them? What sort of circuit configurations are there and how do we design the component values etc.

These are very different subjects which can be studied individually. In particular knowing the physics of transistors does not help much in circuit theory.

 

[Bassalisk]

Hi Bassilisk,

You first need to tell us what your point of view is

Are you studying transistors from a physics points of view. That is how they work internally and so on.

Or are you studying them from manufacturing point of view ?

Or are you studying them from an electronic circuit point of view. That is how do we use them? What sort of circuit configurations are there and how do we design the component values etc.

These are very different subjects which can be studied individually. In particular knowing the physics of transistors does not help much in circuit theory.

I am studying it as part of EE. I am first year at EE. My course name is : Electronic elements and circuits.

To be honest material they gave me only got me confused. Basically, yes, I would require physics behind it, at least enough to satisfy one's need for explanation. I cannot just accept stuff like: that is that and finish.

But then again I don't want to go so deep to quantum phenomena. They really passed the explanation. The kinda explanation I expect is like the one for PN diodes(holes, electrons, Ions, depletion zone etc) just more wide I suppose because of the fact that transistors are more complex.

So what your saying is that I don't bust my head with physics behind it? I find that difficult to accept. How can I then understand how will transistor behave in different situations?

 

[Studiot]

Most Electronic Engineering books contain an introductory chapter about semiconductor devices and how they work internally.

They never really use this information in the rest of the book!

Some good (& cheap) books from this point of view are

Transistor Circuit Techniques
Discrete and integrated

G J Ritchie

~A Practical Introduction to Electronic Circuits

Martin Hartley Jones

Electronics and Electronic Systems

George H Olsen

If you really want the link between Physics and Electronics there has never been a better book than this one.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sea...t&tn=semiconductor+junction+devices&x=64&y=12

All these books can be had very cheaply second hand, there is no need these days for a dedicated book on transistors.

 

[Bassalisk]

Most Electronic Engineering books contain an introductory chapter about semiconductor devices and how they work internally.

They never really use this information in the rest of the book!

Some good (& cheap) books from this point of view are

Transistor Circuit Techniques
Discrete and integrated

G J Ritchie

~A Practical Introduction to Electronic Circuits

Martin Hartley Jones

Electronics and Electronic Systems

George H Olsen

If you really want the link between Physics and Electronics there has never been a better book than this one.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sea...t&tn=semiconductor+junction+devices&x=64&y=12

All these books can be had very cheaply second hand, there is no need these days for a dedicated book on transistors.

Thank you very much!

 

[Bassalisk]

I don't want to open a new thread. So I will ask a question here:

NPN transistors. Electrons build-up so much in base that they cross over the depleted region, and resulting in current flow through transistor. A small fraction is lost due to recombination in Base right?

Does this mean that i can control how much i give positive charge to base through external supply and control how much current goes through resistor?

Is this main idea of transistor?

 

[Studiot]

That is a big question. There are several models of transistor operation, based on voltage, current and charge control respectively.

A fair round up is given on Wikipedia under -strangely- the second paragraph entitles voltage, current and charge control.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_junction_transistor