Concentrating on the physics, materials, and surface science of semiconductors rather than the individual devices themselves, the two volumes of this Second Edition present a condensate of the existing knowledge of semiconductor physics. The work contains everything a researcher needs in order to understand the functionality of semiconductor devices including bonds and bands; phonons, photons, and excitons; transport and optics; impurities and defects; carriers; fields; phase transitions; superconducity; noise; photoconductivity; space-charge effects; Schottky barriers; materials; and solar cells.