In sections on fundamentals, non-crystalline semiconductors, and thin film transistor circuits and applications, he discusses such topics as resistor-capacitor circuits, modeling threshold voltage shift for circuit design, a transistor as a switch, compensation circuits for displays, and a case study of a pseudo PMOS
field effect transistor.
They have retained the basic physics of classic devices and added material on such areas of contemporary interest as three-dimensional MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors), nonvolatile memory, modulation-doped
field effect transistor, single-electron transistor, resonant-tunneling diode, insulated-gate bipolar transistor, quantum cascade laser, and semiconductor sensors.