ABACUS: Test for Crystal Viewer Tool
05 Aug 2010 | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
The objective of this test is to give an idea to a self-learning students or to instructors in the case this test is used in a classroom the level of understanding of this topic when students have gone through the learning material, worked exercises and have completed the assignments and the...
ABACUS: Test for Carrier Statistics Tool
10 Aug 2010 | Contributor(s): Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
ABACUS: Test for BJT lab Tool
06 Oct 2010 | Contributor(s): Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
The objective of this test is to give an idea to a self-learning student or to instructors in the case this test is used in a classroom the level of understanding of this topic when students have gone through the learning material, worked exercises and have completed the assignments and the...
ABACUS: Test for Bandstructure Lab
10 Aug 2010 | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
This is a test that examines ones understanding of electronic structure once he/she has gone through the materials and exercises provided on the nanoHUB as part of the ABACUS Bandstructure topic page and running the Bandstructure Lab.
ABACUS: MOSFET - Diffusion Process
09 Aug 2010 | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
The goal of this assignment is to make familiar the students the required doses in the diffusion step of fabrication of semiconductor devices to get certain values of the volume doping densities.
ABACUS Exercise: Light Shining on a Semiconductor
20 Jul 2010 | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
The objective of this exercise is to examine the behavior of semiconductors under illumination with light.
ABACUS Exercise: Crystal Lattices and Miler Indices
The objective of these assignments is to teach the students about crystal lattices and Miler indices for planes and directions.
ABACUS Exercise: Conductivity and Carrier Concentration
The objective of the first problem is to teach the students how to calculate carrier conductivity in a bulk semiconductor material. The objective of the second problem is to calculate the electron and hole concentrations in a bulk sample for fixed donor and varying acceptor concentration.
ABACUS Exercise: Carriers Distribution vs. Energy
The objective of this problem is to teach the students how the occupancy function changes with temperature, therefore affecting the population of available energy states in the conduction and valence bands.
ABACUS Exercise: Carrier Statistics
20 Jul 2010 | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska
The objective of this exercise is to derive Bose-Einstein and Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics.
ABACUS Exercise: Bandstructure – Kronig-Penney Model and Tight-Binding Exercise
20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
The objective of this exercise is to start with the simple Kronig-Penney model and understand formations of bands and gaps in the dispersion relation that describes the motion of carriers in 1D periodic potentials. The second exercise examines the behavior of the bands at the Brillouin zone...
2D Scattering Rates Calculation
20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, David K. Ferry
this set of slides describes the calculation of the 2D scattering rates in Q2DEG.
1-D Modeling of HgCdTe Photodetectors Operated at Low Temperatures
04 Aug 2011 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): pradyumna muralidharan, Dragica Vasileska
This presentation describes the capabilities of the tool OPTODET: 1D HgCdTe photodetector modeling tool.
Worked Examples for Carrier Statistics (advanced)
16 Aug 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
Two worked out examples based on Fermi-Dirac Vs Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics and temperature effects are presented.