ECE 656: Electronic Transport in Semiconductors/Purdue University
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Schedule of Lectures and Reading Assignments
Date | Topic | Reading |
Aug. 22 | Course Intro / Bandstructure /Quantum conf. | NET: 1 / FCT: 1.2, 1.3 |
Aug. 24 | Evaluating sums and integrals | FCT: 1.4, 1.5.2, 3.1 |
Aug. 26 | Density of states | FCT: 3.1 |
Aug. 29 | General model for transport | NET: 2.1, 2.2 |
Aug. 31 | Distribution of Modes / Transmission | NET: 2.3, 2.4 |
Sept. 2 | Near-eq. transport / transport in bulk | NET: 2.5, 2.6 |
Sept. 5 | LABOR DAY (NO CLASS) | —- |
Sept. 7 | Resistance: ballistic to diffusive | NET: 3.1 – 3.3 |
Sept. 9 | Resistance: Discussion | NET: 3.4, 3.5 |
Sept. 12 | Thermoelectric effects: charge flow | NET: 4.1 – 4.2 |
Sept. 14 | Thermoelectric effects: heat flow | NET: 4.3 |
Sept. 16 | Coupled flows and thermoelectric devices | NET: 4.4-4.6, 5.1-5.7 |
Sept. 19 | Colloquium: Landauer Perspective on TE | —- |
Sept. 21 | Physics of scattering and transmission | NET: 6.1 – 6.5 |
Sept. 23 | Phonon transport | NET: 9.1 – 9.8 |
Sept. 26 | EXAM 1 | —- |
Sept. 28 | The Boltzmann Transport Equation | NET: 7.1 – 7.3 / FCT: 1.6 |
Sept. 30 | Transport coefficients | NET: 7.4 |
Oct. 3 | Small magnetic fields | NET: 7.5 – 7.6 |
Oct. 5 | Measurements I | NET: 8.1 – 8.2 |
Oct. 7 | Measurements II | NET: 8.3, 8.5, 8.6 |
Oct. 10 | FALL BREAK (NO CLASS) | —- |
Oct. 12 | Scattering I: Collision integral | FCT 3.3 |
Oct. 14 | Scattering II: Relaxation Time Approximation | FCT 3.5 |
Oct. 17 | Scattering and Fermi’s Golden Rule | FCT: 1.7, 1.8 |
Oct. 19 | Ionized impurity scattering: I | FCT: 2.2.1, 2.4 |
Oct. 21 | Ionized impurity scattering: II | FCT: 2.4 |
Oct. 24 | Phonon scattering: I | FCT: 2.2.2, 2.3, 2.5-2.9 |
Oct. 26 | Phonon scattering: II | FCT: 2.2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 |
Oct. 28 | Phonon scattering: III | FCT: 2.8, 2.9, 2,12, 2.14 |
Oct. 31 | Phonon scattering in 1D, 2D, and 3D | FCT: 2.11 |
Nov. 2 | Scattering of Bloch Electrons | FCT: 4.9 / NET: 10.5 – 10.6 |
Nov. 4 | No Class (EXAM II) | —- |
Nov. 7 | BTE: equilibrium / ballistic | FCT: 3.4.1 |
Nov. 9 | Balance equations: I | FCT: 5.1 |
Nov. 11 | Balance equations: II | FCT: 5.3 |
Nov. 14 | Balance equations: III | FCT: 5.4 – 5.4 |
Nov. 16 | Heterostructures | FCT: 5.8 |
Nov. 18 | Monte Carlo Simulation | FCT: 6.1 – 6.9 |
Nov. 21 | Intro to Quantum transport | FCT: 1.5, 9.7, 9.8, 9.12 |
Nov. 23 | THANKSGIVING BREAK (NO CLASS) | —- |
Nov. 25 | THANKSGIVING BREAK (NO CLASS) | —- |
Nov. 28 | High-field transport / Si and GaAs | FCT: 7.1-7.5 |
Nov. 30 | Velocity overshoot | FCT: 8.6 |
Dec. 2 | Ensemble effects | FCT: 8.7 |
Dec. 05 | Ballistic transport in devices: I | FCT. 8.5 |
Dec. 07 | Ballistic transport in devices: II | |
Dec. 09 | Course review |