Lesson Plan for a 1 Semester course: 35-40 lectures©R: Reading Assignment
Structural Properties: 2 Lectures
©R Crystals: Lattices, Basis, and Planes
- Heteroepitaxy: Strain tensor,
- Polar Effects: Spontaneous and Piezoelectric Effects
Electronic levels in Semiconductors: 3 Lectures
©R Particles in attractive potentials, quantum wells
©R Electrons in crystalline materials
©R Distribution functions
©R Metals and insulators
- Mobile carriers
- Doping: Dopants and polar doping
- Heterostructures: Lower dimensional systems
- Strained heterostructures
Charge Transport: 4 lectures
- Transport and scattering
- Velocity-Field relations
- Transport by diffusion
- Carrier generation and recombination
- Current continuity equation
P-N Diodes- Steady State: 3 lectures
- P-N junction under equilibrium
- Junction under bias: Ideal case
- Non-Ideal effects
- High voltage effects
©R Diode applications
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