PEP 561 Solid State Electronics for Engineering I

This course introduces fundamentals of semiconductors and basic building blocks of semiconductor devices that are necessary for understanding semiconductor device operations. It is for first-year graduate students and upper-class undergraduate students in electrical engineering, applied physics, engineering physics, optical engineering and materials engineering who have no previous exposure to solid state physics and semiconductor devices. Topics covered will include description of crystal structures and bonding; introduction to statistical description of electron gas; free-electron theory of metals; motion of electrons in periodic lattice-energy bands; Fermi levels; semiconductors and insulators; electrons and holes in semiconductors; impurity effects; generation and recombination; mobility and other electrical properties of semiconductors; thermal and optical properties; p-n junctions; metal-semiconductor contacts.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

EE 561, MT 561

Prerequisite

Graduate Student or At Least Junior

Distribution

Department of Physics Electrical Engineering Program Materials Science and Engineering Program

Offered

Fall Semester Spring Semester Summer Session 1