Based on lectures read by the author to students of the faculty of engineering electronics at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute for a number of years, the present book treats semiconductor physics with an accent placed on its application to fields associated with electronics. In these and similar fields, acquaintance with the fundamentals of statistical physics of nonequilibrium states (kinetics) is very important because a foundation is setup helping to master special subjects dealing in some way or other with the flow of an electric current in gases, semiconductors, and metals.
In acquainting the reader with the basic methods and concepts of statistical physics, the author illustrates all the material with examples, following the well-justified principle: from concrete to abstract, from simple to complicated material.
The book is intended for students of higher educational institutions who have completed a course in mathematics and general physics.
Andrei M. Vasilyev, D,Sc. (Engineering), has been a professor at the Physics Department of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute from 1968, and from 1977 he has been heading the department. He is the author of about 100 published works, and a co-author of Semiconductor Photoelectric Transducers (in Russian).