Noise and the Solid State

The replacement of thermionic devices by solid-state devices did not affect the fundamentals of thermal noise and shot noise but introduced a new range of applications and some new phenomena which is the subject of this book. Among the latter are generation-recombination noise, the still controversial 1/f noise, noise in avalanche devices and transferred-electron devices. Besides such semiconductor devices, also considered is noise in cryogenic devices, in charge-coupled devices, in ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials and in radiation detectors.