Chapter 1 Basic Principles of a Silicon Detector

Chapter 2 Radiation Damage in Silicon Detector Devices

Chapter 3 First Steps with Silicon Sensors: NA11 (Proof of Principle)

Chapter 4 The DELPHI Microvertex Detector at LEP

Chapter 5 CDF: The World’s Largest Silicon Detector in the 20th Century; the First Silicon Detector at a Hadron Collider

Chapter 6 CMS: Increasing Size by 2 Orders of Magnitude

Chapter 7 The Design of the CMS Upgrade Tracker and the CMS High Granularity Forward Calorimeter Equipped with Silicon Sensors for the HL-LHC

Chapter 9 Conclusion and Outlook