Solar Cells Lecture 4: What is Different about Thin-Film Solar Cells?

29 Aug 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Thin film solar cells promise acceptable efficiency at low cost. This tutorial examines the device physics of thin-film solar cells, which generally require a different type of analysis than …

http://nanohub.org/resources/11949

Solar Cells Lecture 5: Organic Photovoltaics

29 Aug 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Organic solar cells make use of low-cost organic polymers for photovoltaics. Although these solar cells may appear to be quite different from solar cells made with conventional, inorganic …

http://nanohub.org/resources/11950

Solar Cell Fundamentals

19 Aug 2011 | Courses | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom, J. L. Gray, Muhammad A. Alam

This set of five tutorials is an introduction to solar cell technology fundamentals.

http://nanohub.org/resources/11888

Physics of Current and Future Devices

27 Jun 2011 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

This set of powerpoint slides is part of a series Nanoelectronics and Modeling at the Nanoscale. It gives a glimpse on effects that occur in current and future nanoscale devices that have to be …

http://nanohub.org/resources/11491

Why and how quantum effect comes into picture?? How the density of states are calculated in nanowire/nanotubes??

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What is the relation between the extrinsic debye length and inbuild depletion width in PN junction?

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How do we find relation between the debye length and the depletion width define by the built in potential of the PN junction?? How to view this intuitively ??

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Lecture 7: On Reliability and Randomness in Electronic Devices

14 Apr 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad Alam

Outline: Background
 information Principles
 of 
reliability
 physics Classification
 of 
Electronic
 Reliability Structure 
Defects
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 Electronic
 Materials Conclusions

http://nanohub.org/resources/7175

Lecture 9: Breakdown in Thick Dielectrics

05 Apr 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad Alam

Outline: Breakdown in gas dielectric and Paschen’s law Spatial and temporal dynamics during breakdown Breakdown in bulk oxides: puzzle Theory of pre-existing defects: Thin oxides Theory of …

http://nanohub.org/resources/7177

Lecture 8: Mechanics of Defect Generation and Gate Dielectric Breakdown

10 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad Alam

http://nanohub.org/resources/7176

Illinois ECE 440 Solid State Electronic Devices, Lecture 21: P-N Diode Breakdown

07 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Pop

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http://nanohub.org/resources/8630

Illinois ECE 440 Solid State Electronic Devices, Lecture 22&23: P-N Junction Capacitance; Contacts

07 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Pop

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http://nanohub.org/resources/8615

Illinois ECE 440 Solid State Electronic Devices, Lecture 24: Narrow-base P-N Diode

07 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Pop

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http://nanohub.org/resources/8618

Illinois ECE 440 Solid State Electronic Devices, Lecture 25: Intro to BJT

07 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Pop

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http://nanohub.org/resources/8621

Illinois ECE 440 Solid State Electronic Devices, Lecture 26: Narrow-base BJT

07 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Pop

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http://nanohub.org/resources/8624

Illinois ECE 440 Solid State Electronic Devices, Lecture 27: BJT Gain

07 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Pop

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http://nanohub.org/resources/8627

Semiconductor Device Theory Exercises

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

This collection of problems should help the students to better understand Semiconductor Device Physics on a fundamental and more complex level. Crystal lattices and Miller indicies From 1 well …

http://nanohub.org/resources/5170

Lecture 10: Interface Damage & Negative Bias Temperature Instability

29 Jul 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad Alam

Outline: Background information NBTI interpreted by R-D model The act of measurement and observed quantity NBTI vs. Light-induced Degradation Possibility of Degradation-free Transistors …

http://nanohub.org/resources/7178

Illinois ECE 440: Solid State Electronic Devices Homework Assignments (Fall 2009)

28 Jan 2010 | Series | Contributor(s): Mohamed Mohamed

Homework assignments for the Fall 2009 teaching of Illinois ECE 440: Solid State Electronic Devices.

http://nanohub.org/resources/8300