2008 NCN@Purdue Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up

26 Aug 2008 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam, Supriyo Datta, Mark Lundstrom

Electronics from the Bottom Up is designed to promote the bottom-up perspective by beginning at the nanoscale, and working up to the micro and macroscale of devices and systems. For electronic devices, this means first understanding the smallest electronic device – a single molecule with two …

2009 NCN@Purdue Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up

22 Sep 2009 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta, Mark Lundstrom, Muhammad A. Alam, Joerg Appenzeller

The school will consist of two lectures in the morning on the Nanostructured Electronic Devices: Percolation and Reliability and an afternoon lecture on Graphene Physics and Devices. A hands on laboratory session will be available in the afternoons.

A Physical Model for Non-Ohmic Shunt Conduction and Metastability in Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells

16 Aug 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Sourabh Dongaonkar, Souvik Mahapatra, Karthik Yogendra, Muhammad Alam

In this talk we develop a coherent physics based understanding of the shunt leakage problem in a-Si:H cells, and discuss its implications on cell and module level. Sourabh Dongaonkar is with School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Karthik Y and Souvik …

BioSensorLab

14 Aug 2006 | Tools | Contributor(s): Pradeep R. Nair, Jonghyun Go, Graeme John Landells, Tejas Rajiv Pandit, Muhammad Alam

BioSensorLab is a tool to evaluate and predict the performance parameters of Biosensors.

Computational Modeling: Experience from my Bell Lab Days

19 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

This presentation was one of 13 presentations in the one-day forum, "Excellence in Computer Simulation," which brought together a broad set of experts to reflect on the future of computational science and engineering.

ECE 606 Lecture 10: Additional Information

16 Feb 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Outline: Potential, field, and charge E-k diagram vs. band-diagram Basic concepts of donors and acceptors Conclusion R. F. Pierret, "Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals", Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Volume VI, Addison-Wesley, 1987, Chapter 4 (pages 101-111)

ECE 606 Lecture 11: Equilibrium Statistics

16 Feb 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Outline: Law of mass-action & intrinsic concentration Statistics of donors and acceptor levels Conclusion R. F. Pierret, "Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals", Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Volume VI, Addison-Wesley, 1987, Chapter 4 (pages 110-120

ECE 606 Lecture 12: Equilibrium Concentrations

16 Feb 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Outline: Carrier concentration Temperature dependence of carrier concentration Multiple doping, co-doping, and heavy-doping Conclusion R. F. Pierret, "Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals", Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Volume VI, Addison-Wesley, 1987, Chapter 4, (pages 118-128)

ECE 606 Lecture 13: Recombination-Generation

16 Feb 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Outline: Non-equilibrium systems Recombination generation events Steady-state and transient response Derivation of R-G formula Conclusion R. F. Pierret, "Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals", Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Volume VI, Addison-Wesley, 1987, Chapter 5, (pages 134-146)

ECE 606 Lecture 13a: Fermi Level Differences for Metals and Semiconductors

16 Feb 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Short chalkboard lecture on Fermi level and band diagram differences for metals and semiconductors.

ECE 606 Lecture 14: Bulk Recombination

29 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Outline: Derivation of SRH formula Application of SRH formula for special cases Direct and Auger recombination Conclusion R. F. Pierret, "Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals", Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Volume VI, Addison-Wesley, 1987, Chapter 5 (Pages 154-167)

ECE 606 Lecture 15: Surface Recombination/Generation

29 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Outline: Nature of interface states SRH formula adapted to interface states Surface recombination in depletion region Conclusion R. F. Pierret, "Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals", Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Volume VI, Addison-Wesley, 1987, Chapter 5 (Pages 154-167)

ECE 606 Lecture 16: Carrier Transport

23 Feb 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

ECE 606 Lecture 17: Hall Effect, Diffusion

24 Feb 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Outline: Measurement of mobility Hall Effect for determining carrier concentration Physics of diffusion Conclusions R. F. Pierret, "Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals", Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Volume VI, Addison-Wesley, 1987, Chapter 5 (Pages 190-202)

ECE 606 Lecture 18: Continuity Equations

24 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Outline Continuity Equation Example problems Conclusion R. F. Pierret, "Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals", Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Volume VI, Addison-Wesley, 1987, Chapter 5 (Pages 205‐210)

ECE 606 Lecture 19: Numerical Solution of Transport Equation

29 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Outline: Basic Transport Equations Gridding and finite differences Discretizing equations and boundary conditions Conclusion Lundstrom, Mark, A Primer on Semiconductor Device Simulation, online presentation.

ECE 606 Lecture 1: Introduction

28 Jan 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Outline: Course information Current flow in semiconductors Types of material systems Classification of crystals

ECE 606 Lecture 20: Electrostatics of P-N Junction Diodes

11 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

ECE 606 Lecture 21: P-N Diode I-V Characteristics

11 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

ECE 606 Lecture 22: Non-ideal Effects

11 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

ECE 606 Lecture 23: AC Response

13 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

ECE 606 Lecture 24: Large Signal Response

13 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

ECE 606 Lecture 25: Schottky Diode I

24 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

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ECE 606 Lecture 26: Schottky Diode II

19 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

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ECE 606 Lecture 27: Introduction to Bipolar Transistors

29 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam