PHYS5660 Semiconductor Physics and Devices
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PHYS5660 Semiconductor Physics and Devices
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Front Matter
  • Assessment Modes - Contacts - Academic Honesty Announcement


    • Class Notes
  • Ch I - The Basics and What we are Interested in
  • Ch II - The Reciprocal Lattices
  • Ch III - Very Essential Quantum Mechanics - Much Less than necessary for the course
  • Ch IV Part 1 - Electronic Energy Bands - Basic Ideas [What is the Energy Band Problem] and Bloch Theorem
  • Ch IV Part 2 - Properties of Bloch Functions - Periodic BC - Allowed k-values in 1st BZ - Normalization - Eq for u-function
  • Ch IV Part 3 - Empty Lattice Approximation - Physical Picture of Band Formation - Plane Wave Expansions
  • Ch IV Part 4 - Nearly Free Electron Model of Band Formation
  • Ch IV Appendix A - Time-independent Non-degenerate and degenerate Perturbation Theories (physical sense of the formulas)
  • Ch V Part 1 - LCAO and TBM - Pictures of Atomic Orbitals
  • Ch V Part 2 - LCAO and TBM - Multi-electron Atoms and Related Ideas
  • Ch V Part 3 - LCAO for Bonding in Molecules - Empirical Approaches - Hybridization
  • Ch V Part 4 - Tight-Binding Model is LCAO extended to solids and the Wannier Functions
  • Ch VI Part 1 - Features in Semiconductor Energy Bands - Spin-orbit interaction - Key features in Si, Ge, GaAs bands
  • Ch VI Part 2 - k dot p approximation - Momentum Matrix Element - Luttinger basis functions - 2-band and Kane model - Si and Ge valence bands
  • Ch VI Part 3 - k dot p set up at general k-point - Si conduction band - Concept of Holes
  • Ch VI Part 4 - Wannier Theorem - Effective Mass Approximation - Force equation - Accerelation and Effective Mass Tensor
  • Ch VI Part 5 - Validity of Effective Mass Approximation - Envelope Function Approach - Refs
  • Ch VII Density of Electronic States near Band Edges (revised)
  • Ch VIII - Electronic Effects of Impurities(draft)
  • Ch IX Part 1 - Semiconductor Statistics - Fermi-Dirac distribution - Characteristic numbers - Classical approximations - Law of mass action
  • Ch IX Part 2 - Semiconductor Statistics - Intrinsic Semiconductors - Extrinic Semiconductors - Statistics of Impurities
  • Ch X Part 1 - Lattice Vibrations - Normal modes and dispersion relations
  • Ch X Part 2 - Each normal mode is an independent oscillator - what are phonons - what is quantizing a field
  • Ch X Part 3 (revised) - Excitations at Temperature T and Some consequences including anharmonic effects
  • Ch X Part 4 (revised) - Scattering of Phonons as probes of dispersions relation and Picture of Electron-phonon scattering
  • Ch X Part 5 - Optical branches in ionic crystals - Lattice optical properties in IR - polariton - remarks on SPP
  • Ch XI Part 1 (revised) - Essential Ideas in Electron Transport - The Conductivity Formula and Free-carrier absorption
  • Ch XI Part 2 (revised) - Temperature sensitivity of conductivity and Scatterings leads to Relaxation back to equilibrium
  • Ch XI Part 3 (revising) - Boltzmann Transport Equation - Relaxation Time Approximation - Linear Response idea
  • Ch XI Part 4 (revising) - Conductivity Formula revisited and Non-trivial averaged relaxation time for semiconuductors


    • Problem Sets
  • Problem Set 1 (due 30 Jan 2020)
  • Problem Set 1 [REVISED] (due 30 Jan 2021)
  • Problem Set 2 (due 24 Feb 2021)
  • Problem Set 3 (due 7 April 2021)


    • Solutions to Problem Sets
  • Solutions to problem set 1
  • Solutions to problem set 2


    • About the Term Paper
  • PHYS 5660 Semiconductor Physics and Devices - Term Paper Guidelines


    • Supplementary Learning Materials - Basic Physical Principles


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