Properties of Electronic Materials ppt

Lecture Notes on EEE352 Properties of Electronic Materials

These set of lecture notes have been prepared by Prof. D. K. Ferry and have been modified slightly by Dragica Vasileska during the spring semester of 2007.

1. Class Syllabys

2. Subject topics that have been covered during the course of teaching this class:

Crystallography

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Classifying matter, Crystal lattices

Lecture 3: Crystal Structure, Diffraction, Bragg Diffraction, Miller Indicies

Lecture 4: Crystal Directions, Wave Propagation

Quantum Mechanics

Lecture 5: Particles and Waves as One and the Same?

Lecture 5: Examples

Lecture 6: Properties of Matter Waves; Schrödinger Equation

Lecture 6-addl: Postulates of Quantum Mechanics

Lecture 7: Quantum-Mechanics and the Schrödinger Equation

Lecture 7-addl: Wavepackets; Movies of Solution of the TDSWE

Lecture 8: Electron Motion and Probability Velocity

Lecture 8-addl: Time Independent Schrödinger-Wave Equation – Part 1

Lecture 9: Quantum Confinement and Energy Quantization

Lecture 9-addl: Time Independent Schrodinger-Wave Equation – Part 2

Lecture 10: Tunneling Through a Potential Barrier

Lecture 10-addl: Tunneling, Double Barrier Case

Solid-State Theory

Lecture 11: The Atom and Its Energy Levels

Lecture 12: Bonding—Metallic crystals and Covalent bonding

Lecture 13: The Kronig-Penney Model—A Unified Model

Lecture 14: Density of States Function; The Concept of Holes

Statistical Mechanics

Lecture 15: Derivation of Fermi-Dirac Statistics

Lecture 15-addl: Statistical Mechanics

Semiconductor Fundamentals

Lecture 16: Electron and Hole Densities

Lecture 16-addl: Electron and Hole Densities, Examples

Lecture 17: Introduction of Dopants

Lecture 18: Carrier Action – Drift Process

Lecture 19: Carrier Action – Diffusion, Generation-Recombination

Lecture 20: Carrier Excitation, Photogeneration and Thermionic Emission

Semiconductor Devices

Lecture 21: PN-junctions

Lecture 22: MOS-Capacitor - Introduction

Lecture 23: MOS-Capacitor - Electrostatics

Lecture 24: MOS-Capacitor - Ideal

Lecture 25: MOSFET - Introduction

Lecture 26: MOSFET – IV Characteristics, Simulation Examples (DAMOCLES)

Lecture 27: MOSFET – Threshold Voltage, Discrete Impurity Effects

Lecture 28: Bipolar Junction Transistor

Lecture 29: Molecular Beam Epitaxy, HEMT

Dielectrics

Lecture 30: Dielectric Materials Explained

Lecture 31: Applications of Piezoelectric Materials

Optoelectronics

Lecture 32: Introduction to Optoelectronics

Lecture 33: Solar Cells: Intro, Principles of Operation

Lecture 34: Introduction to Lasers