"Version: 20170401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. The Seebeck and Peltier effects -- 1.1. Definition of the thermoelectric coefficients -- 1.2. The Kelvin relations -- 1.3. Electrical resistance and thermal conductance2. The thermoelectric figure of merit -- 2.1. Coefficient …
"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction to vacuum electron devices -- 1.2. Traveling-wave tubes -- 1.3. Slow-wave structures -- 1.4. Brief review of existing SWSs -- 1.5. Planar SWSs -- 1.6. Microfabrication of SWSs and challenges -- 1.7. Methods of analysis and simulation for SWSs -- 1.8. Outline of the book2. Microstrip me…
"Version: 20250101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and generative artificial intelligence -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. AI versus ML vs DL vs Gen AI -- 1.3. Ethics of AI -- 1.4. Types of machine learning -- 1.5. Artificial neural networks -- 1.6. AI computing -- 1.7. Aims, scope and organization of the book -- 1.8…
"Version: 20170801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Some general aspects of heat conduction -- 1.2. Solution of the self-heating problem -- 1.3. Modeling heating effects in state of the art devices with the commercial tool SILVACO2. Current state of the art…
"Version: 20220601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Electric properties of matter -- 2.1. The electron -- 2.2. The electron gas--Drude's theory -- 2.3. The Fermi gas--Sommerfeld's theory -- 2.4. Electrons in a magnetic field -- 2.5. Beyond the electron gas model3. Intermolecular interactions -- 3.1. Electrostatic interactions -- 3.2. Hydrogen bond -- …
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Some general observations -- 1.2. Optically excited hot carriers -- 1.3. Hot carriers in devices -- 1.4. What is in this book2. High electric field transport -- 2.1. Velocity and mobility -- 2.2. Transient transport -- 2.3. Inter-valley scattering -- 2.4. Impact ionization and breakdown -- 2.5. Micro…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Physical and technological limitations of nano-CMOS devices to the end of the roadmap and beyond -- 1.1. MOSFETs and their scaling -- 1.2. Limitations and showstoppers arising from CMOS scaling, and technological options for MOSFET optimisation2. Introduction and overview of nanoelectronics -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2.…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Photothermal and optoelectronic devices. 1. Bolometers, Golay cells and pyroelectric detectors -- 1.1. Bolometers -- 1.2. Uncooled bolometers -- 1.3. Cooled superconducting bolometers -- 1.4. Golay cell -- 1.5. Pyroelectric detector -- 1.6. Discussion and conclusions2. Optical rectification and electrooptic effect-b…
"Version: 20230701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Environmental hazards and extreme-temperature electronics. Sub-part IA. Environmental hazards. 1. Introduction and overview -- 1.1. Reasons for moving away from normal practices in electronics -- 1.2. Organization of the book -- 1.3. Temperature effects -- 1.4. Harsh environment effects -- 1.5. Discussion and conc…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Particles in classical transport -- 1.2. The quantum mechanical view of particles -- 1.3. Electronic devices as complex systems -- 1.4. Probability and particles -- 1.5. Various approaches for semiconductor devices -- 1.6. An outline of this book -- Appendix A. On quantization…