ELEN E3106

Solid-State Devices and Materials

• Introduction, crystal structures
• Unit cell, cubic and diamond structures, miller indices
• Semiconductor energy bands, carriers
• Intrinsic semiconductors, dopants
• Density of states, Fermi-Dirac distribution function
• Equilibrium carrier concentration, Fermi level
• Carrier modeling and computation, review
• Carrier action, drift, mobility, and resistivity
• Band bending, carrier diffusion, Einstein relations
• Recombination-Generation, minority carrier lifetimes
• Minority carrier diffusion equations, quasi Fermi level
• pn Junction, depletion approximation
• Step junction, linearly graded
• Ideal pn-junction models, I-V characteristics
• Saturation current, carrier concentrations
• Bipolar junction transistor, performance parameters
• Ideal transistor analysis
• Diffusion equations, computational model
• Performance parameters, Ebers-Moll Equations
• MOS fundamentals, gate voltage relationship
• MOSFET
• ID-VD relationships
• Square Law, Bulk-Charge theory
• AC response, equivalent circuits, cutoff frequency