Fundamentals of Semiconductors
Peter Y. Yu and Manuel Cardona

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--Errata to the New Third Edition (a  .pdf file updated 10/1/2002) ; Errata to the Second Printing of the Third Edition (a  .pdf file updated 4/1/2003). Errata to the Third Printing of the Third Edition (a .pdf file updated 3/12/2005).
--Errata to the  Second Edition (a  .pdf file updated 2/28/2001)
--An addition to Fig. 1.2 showing how a conventional MOCVD machine can be modified to grow GaN (a .pdf file loaded on 7/20/2000) --Errata to Table 2.25 (a 34K .pdf file updated 2/10/2000)
--A supplement to Problem 3.7 which derives the character table of the wurtzite space group and the symmetries of its phonons (a .pdf file created on 7/25/2000)
--An improved version of Fig. 5.4 on Intervalley Electron-Phonon Scattering in Si (a .pdf file loaded on 7/17/2000)

Last Updated 3/12/2005.

Errata for the First Printing of the Hard Cover Version

Page	Location	Currently Reads	Should Read
XIII	9.4.1	by Confined Acoustic	by Folded Acoustic
14	third line from bottom	conversion factor for various units can be be found at the end of this book	conversion factor from eV to frequency can be found inside the front cover of this book
28	Fig. 2.6	Red sphere = F, Shaded sphere = Ca	Red sphere = Ca, Shaded sphere = F
41	last	change only by 0 or ±1	change only by ±1
46	Table 2.13	{md }     xyz	{md}     xzy
74	Eq.(2.60)	H12 '^2+H13'^2	| H12'|^2+|H13'|^2
		Eq.(2.61)	[(H11 '+H12')^2-4(H11'H12'-H12 '^2-H13'^2)]^1/2	[(H11'+H22')^2-4(H11'H22 '-|H12'|^2-|H13'|^2)]^1/2
88	Fig. 2.25b	(the vertical axis passes through "X1c")	(axis should be broken as with "X4c")
93	Problem 2.8 a
108	Fig. 3.5 (first two pictures)	A is shaded light red	A is shaded black
113	Fig. 3.11 caption	solid circles	circles
116	text box
132	Problem 3.4b	(shear tensors are shown as determinants)	(shear tensors should be shown as matrices)
182	4.3.3 heading	An Application	Another Application
224	first line	sum of ... plus ...	sum of ... and ...
235	second paragraph	is real imples that …	is real implies that …
236	second paragraph	is not importance …	is not important …
242	fourth paragraph	By symplifying this …	By simplifying this …
249	eqn. (6.39)
252	third paragraph	… band separation Eev.	… band separation Ecv.
252	third paragraph	doubly degenerate band [eqn. 6.55]	degenerate band is given by [eqn. 6.55]
268	Fig. 6.20b	(the two black dots in exciton pictures are not aligned with the dot above)	(align all three black dots)
277	Fig. 6.25	-	(remove gray lines)
278	Fig. 6.26	x-axis: 17.100 17.200 etc.	x-axis: 17100 17200 etc.
284	first line	much higher that the …	much higher than the …
284	fourth paragraph	in order than (6.107) be satisfied	in order that (6.107) be satisfied
284	fifth paragraph	E is not necessary zero	E is not necessarily zero
285	last paragraph	… and longitudinal resonance …	… and longitudinal resonances …
285	last paragraph	… transverse of longitudinal vibrations …	… transverse or longitudinal vibrations …
312	second line from the top	shown in (3.20)	shown in (2.48)
379	first paragraph	… given by (6.115b).	… given by (6.114b).
390	last paragraph	energy denominator in (7.59) diverges	energy dependent term in (7.59) diverges
439	third line from bottom	zinc blende	zinc-blende
575	Ref. 5.31	D.K. Kim	D.S. Kim

Errata for the Second Printing (Soft Cover Version)- these errors also occur in the first printing

Page	Location	Currently Reads	Should Read
11	SUMMARY  second line	and and	and
14	(2.1)	rj	r i'
16	4 lines below (2.7)	H 1e	H1e
24	line 5 from top	R is a group (and therefore a sbugroup of G) the space	then R is a group (and therefore a sbugroup of G) while the space
25	first line of Fig. 2.4 caption	(c) a gilde plane.	(c) a glide plane.
27	line 17	(a/4)(0,1,1)	( a/4)[0,1,1]
	Fig.2.5	a and a/4 for distance between atoms (red solid circles)	(3)^1/2a and (3)^1/2a/4
47	4 lines below Table 2.14	reciprocal lattice vector (2p /a)(0,0,2)	reciprocal lattice vector (2 p/a)(2,0,0)
49	5 lines from top of second paragraph	( T s x )^2= T(1/2,1/2,0)	(T sx )^2=T(0,1/2,1/2)
59	second line of Fig. 2.21 caption	the sign ov V 1^a	the sign of Vi^a
61	three lines above 2.5.2	X1 conduction band state in Ge is split into two X6 spin doublets	X 1 conduction band state in Ge is split into two states X 6 and X7
65	line 14 from bottom of page	positive term to m*	positive term to 1/m*
74	Eq.(2.60)	H12 '^2+H13'^2	| H12'|^2+|H13'|^2
		Eq.(2.61)	[(H11 '+H12')^2-4(H11'H12'-H12 '^2-H13'^2)]^1/2	[(H11'+H22')^2-4(H11'H22 '-|H12'|^2-|H13'|^2)]^1/2
84	line 13 from bottom	four phase vectors exp(ik.d a)	four phase factors exp(ik.d a)
85	The matrix element for <X2|Hint|Y1 in Table 2.25	Vxx g4*	V xyg4*
88	Fig. 2.25(b)	G25'c	G25'v
		X4c	X 4v
93	line 1 from top	Characters of C3V and C2V Point Groups	Characters of C3v and C2v Point Groups
95	Footnote 1 first line	implicitely	implicitly
118	Table 3.1	a( G1c-a( G15v)	a( G1c)-a(G15v)
126	6th line from bottom	calculatd	calculated
129	Prob.3.1(b)	G=2 G1^++G1^-+G4^+	G=2 G1^++G2^-+G5^+
	Prob.3.1(c)	the 18 zone-center phonon modes in Cu2O have the symmetries  G1^-+G3^-+3G4^- +G5^-+G4^+	the 18 zone-center phonon modes in Cu2O have the symmetries  G2^-+G3^-+3G4^- +G5^-+G5^+
	second line above Fig. 3.12	The  G4^+mode is Raman-active	The  G5^+ mode is Raman-active
131	line 6	Syzyz =Szyzy	S yzyz=Szyzy=Sxyyx...=Syzzy
132	Prob.3.4c)	off-diagonal matrix elements of the strain tensor are all equal to S44	off-diagonal matrix elements of the strain tensor should all be equal to S44/2
		Problem 3.4b) and c)	diagonal	unit
134	Problem 3.6d) second last line	The quantized two transverse	The  two quantized transverse
137	Problem 3.8 The last sentence before part a)	In Problems 3.11 and 3.12 we will perform  theoretical calculation of b and d.	In Problems 3.10 and 3.11 we will perform theoretical calculation of b* and d*.
138	Prob.3.9 first line of second paragraph	and  G15 valence band	and  G25' valence band
		Problem 3.10 line before the matrix	a diagonal matrix..	a unit matrix..
140	Problem 3.11 two lines before the matrix	a diagonal tensor	a unit  tensor
141	Prob. 3.11c) second line above table	|Z2with |X2	|Y1with |X2
143	Prob.3.11c)first line after second equation	the bonding ( G 15 conduction band) and antibonding ( G '25 valence band)	t he antibonding ( G15 conduction band) and bonding ( G'25 valence band)
146	Problem 3.16b)	H ep=(|e|/..	Hep=(4 p|e|/..
147	six lines from top	based on which of these  force constants	based on which  these  force constants
152	last paragraph	one way to solve (4.3)	one way to solve (4.2)
156	6th line after 4.2.2	solutions of (4.2)..	solutions of (4.22)..
157	Fig.4.1	there is a small gap between the valence band and the k-axis	there should be no  gap between the valence band and the k-axis
165	end of page (Table 4.3)	more recent data [2.70].	more recent data.
167	4th line below (4.45)	labeld	labeled
168	Table 4.4	Experimental values for Si (45), InP(31), ZnTe(30) and CdTe(30) are all in normal style	Experimental values for Si (45), InP(31), ZnTe(30) and CdTe(30) should all be in italics
170	first line of Table 4.5 caption	theoretical values of..	theoretical energies of..
175	one line below (4.57)	Det[G]	DetG
176	3rd line below b) Resonant  State Solutions	DOS n(E)	DOS no(E)
		(4.68)	Some k's are in bold-type while two are not	All k's should be in bold-type: k
		2nd line below (4.68)	[to be denoted as no(E)]	[i.e. no(E)]
177	(4.72)	n(r,E)=(-1/ p)Im{TrG(r,r')}	n(r,E)=(-1/ p)Im{G(r,r)}
		(4.73)			Below the summation sign k should be in bold-type: k
178	line above (4.85)	Substituting (4.83) and (4.60) into..	Substituting (4.83) and (4.59) into..
180	4th line from top	to be equal  pNd(Es)..	t o be equal - pNd (Es)..
182	5th line from bottom			Remove entire sentence: Since N has attracted…exciton..
183	third to last line	vary important	very important
185	second line from top	energies of N in the GaAsP..	energies of an electron bound to N in the GaAsP..
186	(4.95)	E0k	Replace all E0k in this equation with E0,k
		last 3 lines from end	,then <Eo^-2>is positive. In order that E	Since <Eo^-2>is positive, in order that E
191	Fig. 4.10 caption	(b) Im{F(E)}	(b) -Im{F(E)}
195	line above (5.6)			Add the following phrase after the word zero: " and denoting the electronic charge -e asq"
196	line after (5.14)	(..Fermi energy)	(..Fermi energy when T~0)
199	below (5.33)			add phrase:  where summation is over all k' not equal to k.
202	(5.46)	q o =Ne^2/(epsilon)skBT	qo=4(pi)Ne^2/(epsilon)skBT  see [6.9 p.497]
203	end of first paragraph	(5.45)	(5.43)
206	7 lines below the figure caption	the Brillouin zone length along	the Brillouin zone length measured from the zone center along
242	first paragraph	replacing (epsilon) r and (epsilon)i by n and k	replacing (epsilon)r and (epsilon)i by n and (kappa)
205	2nd line from bottom	valley	valleys
220	2nd line in section  5.4.3	..higher voltage	..high voltage
275	(2.85b)	H eR^c	H eR
258	Table 6.3	energy of E 1+(Delta)1 in InP=3.835 eV	energy of E1+(Delta)1 in InP=3.28 eV while energy of E1 +(Delta)1 in GaP=3.835 eV
259	(6.58a)	(epsilon) i=A(x-1)^1/2 for x1  where A=2e^2(2mu)^3/2 (/Pcv/^2 )Eg^1/2/[m^2 (omega)^2(hbar)^3]	(epsilon) i=Ax^-^1/2(x-1)^1/2 for x1  where A=2e^2(2mu)^3/2(/Pcv/^2)E g^-3/2/[m^2(hbar)]
275	second line	both kc and ke by k	both kv and ke by k
284	Case 2 (Longitudianl Field)	When epsilon = 0. E is not	When epsilon = 0, E is not
287	Figure 6.30 vertical axis label	w/w0	w/wT
297	first paragraph	in (6.10) and expression in (6.123) we obtain	in (6.10) and expression in (6.126b) we obtain