If anyone needs a refresher in semiconductor physics, there's a good one at this Britney Spears site: http://britneyspears.ac/
edit: how the heck does a link to an excellent introduction to semiconductor physics get voted down in a thread about an article relating to semiconductor physics?
You're getting voted down because most people see the domain "britneyspears.ac" and assume you're spamming, without even visiting the link.
That site actually does have some decent articles related to semiconductor physics, the whole "Britney Spears" thing is just a gag to show how simple they've made it (though the humor is likely to be appreciated only by Physics geeks :)
While there does appear to be some physics articles on the site, the whole thing appears to be cloaking itself in legitimacy as a scheme to get inbound links and drive up its page rank score. Their strategy is likely to get people linking for the physics so that they can sell links for heating oil prices, concert tickets, physics help, and so on. It's more about the advertising than the physics.
I'm sure there's a less spammy physics site you could have linked to?
On the contrary, the page is a piece of internet history. As you can see from the domain, it was created by an academic in an early example of titlebait.
.ac is the country code for Ascension Island and domains on that TLD are required to be academic in the same way that Colombia's .co domains are required to be companies (in other words, there is no requirement). There's a page on how to advertise on the site and a merchandise page as well. Sorry, but I'm still not seeing how this wasn't built as primarily a revenue generator.
Hmmm... Well in that case for more evidence I am going to have to fall back on the assertion that I remember hearing a reference to it being set up in the 90s by a physics professor as a joke, in a documentary about memes on BBC Radio 4:
Although you can't stream that programme and I appreciate that my half-recollections are hardly convincing.
What does seem likely is that the site was in fact set up in the 90s by a physics professor as a joke, and since then it has been used to make money, precisely because it was popular and unusual at the time. Maybe he sold it to someone back in the good old 90s bubble, when men were men and a domain name was a business model.
(Fun Fact: That documentary was presented by the woman who wrote the article about LSD that was on here recently.)
Kudos to the postgraduate student for getting all that PR coverage. He could be raking in a few hundred to a few thousand dollars per month depending on advertising rates and Britney merchandise sales.
edit: how the heck does a link to an excellent introduction to semiconductor physics get voted down in a thread about an article relating to semiconductor physics?