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Description: Credit 4. Introduction to semiconductors,
Energy bands, Electron and hole transport mechanisms in semiconductor
devices, Recombination and generation, P-N Junctions, Intro to
metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors.
Prerequisite: MATH 220, grade of C or better in ECE 115, and a grade of C or better in PHYS
142
Textbooks: Solid State Electronic
Devices, 4th edition, B.G. Streetman, Prentice-Hall 1995), or
Semiconductor Device
Fundamentals, R.F. Pierret, Addison-Wesley 1996).
Topics:
1. Introduction to semiconductors: basic
properties and crystal structure
2. Elements of quantum mechanics
3. Energy bands theory
4. Energy gaps, and carrier types
5. Carrier statistics, distributions and
concentrations
6. Drift, diffusion and
generation-recombination statistics
7. Fundamentals device equations
8. pn junction at
equilibrium: carrier concentrations and electrostatics
9. pn junction
diode: I-V characteristics, nonidealities,
small signal and transient behavior
10. Introduction to bipolar junction
transistors (BJTs)
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