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Course Introduction to Solid-State Electronics Lecturer Pei-Wen Li Credits Junior Senior Required/Elective Elective Level 3 Course Description Introduction 1. Classification of materials 2. Crystalline and impure semiconductors 3. Crystal lattices and periodic structure 4. Reciprocal lattice, Brillium zone Quantum Mechanics 1. Principles of Quantum Mechanics 2. Schrödinger’s Wave Equation 3. Application of Schrödinger’s Wave Equation Quantum Theory of Solids 1. Kronig-Penny Model 2. E-k Diagrams 3. Electrical Conduction in Solids 4. Effective Mass 5. Density of State Functions 6. Statistical Mechanics Semiconductor at Equilibrium 1. Carriers in Semiconductors 2. Dopant Atoms and Energy Levels 3. Extrinsic Semiconductor 4. Statistics of Donors and Acceptors 5. Charge Neutrality 6. Position of Fermi Energy Carrier Transport at Equilibrium 1. Carrier Drift 2. Carrier Diffusion 3. Graded Impurity Distribution 4. Hall Effect 5. Charge Neutrality 6. Position of Fermi Energy Nonequilibrium Excess Carriers 1. Carrier Generation and Recombination 2. 3. Ambipolar Transport 4. Quasi-Fermi Energy Levels 5. Excess-Carrier Lifertime 6. Surface Effects P-N Junction 1. P-N junction Formation 2. Fermi Level Alignment 3. Built-in E-field 4. Bias Effect 5. Linearly Graded PN Junction 6. Textbook / Handouts Continuity Equation I-V Characteristics Robert F. Pierret: “Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals” D. A. Neaman, “Semiconductor Physics and Devices”