Includes bibliographical references and index.

The subject of the book is the physics of semiconductors, an important topic in engineering and physics, which forms the background for electronic and optoelectronic devices, including solar cells. This text aims to provide students and teachers with a concise text that focuses on semiconductors and covers the necessary background in statistical physics. This text introduces the key pre-requisite knowledge in a simple, clear, and friendly manner; and distills the key concepts of semiconductors to their essentials, enabling students to master this key subject in physics, materials and engineering, and is suitable for a course of approximately 30 hours. The subject matter treated in this book is directly connected to the physics of solar cells, which has become a topic of intense interest in the last decade. Thus, all scientists studying and researching photovoltaics in general, and solar cells in particular, will benefit from the clear and intuitive explanations found in this book.