ECE 606: Principles of Semiconductor Devices

12 Nov 2008 | Courses | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

In the last 50 years, solid state devices like transistors have evolved from an interesting laboratory experiment to a technology with applications in all aspects of modern life. Making transistors is a complex process that requires unprecedented collaboration among material scientists, solid state …

Assembly for Nanotechnology Survey Courses

05 Nov 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Dragica Vasileska

Educational Tools for Classroom and Homework use to introduce nanotechnology concepts

C.V. Raman and the Impact of Raman Effect in Quantum Physics, Condensed Matter, and Materials Science

18 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Anant K. Ramdas

Raman’s momentous discovery in 1928 that the spectral analysis of the light scattered by matter, illuminated with monochromatic light of frequency ωL, reveals new signatures at (ωL ± ωi) , ωi’s being the internal frequencies of the matter [Nature121, 501 (1928); Indian Journal of Physics …

Quantum Mechanics for Engineers: Course Assignments

30 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

This set of exercises should help the students better understand the basic principles of quantum mechanics as applied to engineering problems. Introductory concepts in Quantum Mechanics Postulates of Quantum Mechanics Wavepackets Quantum-Mechanical Reflections Quantum-Mechanical …

Exercise: MATLAB Tool Construction for Degenerate/Nondegenerate Semiconductors That Includes Partial Ionization of the Dopants

29 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

This exercise teaches the students how to calculate Ec-Ef from charge neutrality for general Fermi-Dirac statistics and compensated semiconductors. As such it then allows the student to calculate temperature dependence of the electron and hole densities as well as the position of the Fermi …