I've been using this book for half a semester now as part of an undergraduate course in microfabrication. For an introductory text, I feel like this book has a pretty high barrier to entry. It is counting on the reader having a lot of knowledge from other sources. It is heavy on the chemistry, which makes sense, but it is very seldom that the author provides any assistance. There is no "brush up on the fundamentals" type of chapter that you usually find in introductory textbooks, which is really a pain.Also, the text book problems are less like exercises to build comprehension and more like exercises in futility. In most cases, the book does not give you the tools you need to solve the problems that it asks you to solve. It isn't even that the problems are incredibly difficult, its just that the information to solve them is nowhere to be found in the book. To that end, it feels like the problems were just tacked on so the publisher could market the book to college classrooms. And don't even get me started on the typos. This book is FULL OF THEM. Most times the typos are just grammar and spelling type stuff. While that doesn't hurt the content of the book, it is still pretty sloppy. This is the second edition after all, so I would expect a lot of that stuff to have been cleaned up, but it hasn't been.
The book, on the whole, is very readable and it does do a decent job of providing background knowledge of microfabrication. It also has a lot of pretty SEM pictures, so I guess that's something. However, if you are a professor looking to use this as a required text for an undergraduate class, you'd have to be a real sadist to assign the textbook problems...
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