nanoHUB-U: Primer on Semiconductor Fundamentals
Course overview Offering: Fall 2018 (Self-Paced) Section: Default
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This unit has prerequisites that have not yet been met. Begin by completing: Unit 1: Materials Properties and Doping
Unit 1: Materials Properties and Doping
Lectures
- L1.1: Energy Levels to Energy Bands
- L1.2: Crystalline, Polycrystalline, and Amorphous Semiconductors
- L1.3: Miller Indices
- L1.4: Properties of Common Semiconductors
- L1.5: Free Carriers in Semiconductors
- L1.7: Recap
Homework
Unit 2: Rudiments of Quantum Mechanics
Lectures
- L2.1: The Wave Equation
- L2.2: Quantum Confinement
- L2.3: Quantum Tunneling and Reflection
- L2.4: Electron Waves in Crystals
- L2.5: Density of States
- L2.6: Recap
Homework
Unit 3: Equilibrium Carrier Concentration
Lectures
- L3.1: Fermi Function
- L3.2: Fermi-Dirac Integrals
- L3.3: Carrier Concentration vs. Fermi Level
- L3.4: Carrier Concentration vs. Doping Density
- L3.5: Carrier Concentration vs. Temperature
- L3.6: Recap
Homework
Unit 4: Carrier Transport, Recombination and Generation
Lectures
- L4.1: The Landauer Approach
- L4.2: Current from the Nanoscale to Macroscale
- L4.3: Drift-Diffusion Equation
- L4.4: Carrier Recombination
- L4.5: Carrier Generation
- L4.6: Recap
Homework
Unit 5: The Semiconductor Equations
Lectures
- L5.1: Mathematical Formulation
- L5.2: Energy Band Diagrams
- L5.3: Quasi-Fermi Levels
- L5.4: Minority Carrier Diffusion Equation
- L5.5: Recap