SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL ENGINEERINGWEEKLY SCHEDULE
Week 1 ~ 2
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Chapter 1 : The
Crystal Structure of Solids (6 hours)
- Semiconductor materials
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Types of solids
- Space lattices
- Atomic bonding
- Imperfections and Impurities in solids
- Growth
of Semiconductor materials
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Week 3 ~ 4
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Chapter 2: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (6 hours)
- Principles of
quantum mechanics
- Schrodinger’s wave
equation
- Applications of
Schrodinger’s wave equation.
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Week 5 ~ 6
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Chapter 3: Introduction to The Quantum Theory of Solids (6 hours)
- Allowed and
forbidden energy bands
- Electrical
conduction in solids
- Extension to three
dimensions
- Density of states
function
- Statistical
mechanics
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Week 7 ~ 9
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Chapter 4: The semiconductor in equilibrium (6 hours)
- Charge carriers in
semiconductor
- Dopant atoms and
energy level
- The extrinsic
semiconductor
- Statistics of Donor and Acceptor
- Charge Neutrality
- Position of Fermi energy level
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Week 8
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Mid-Semester Break
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Week 10 ~ 11
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Chapter
5: Carrier transport
phenomena (6 hours)
- Carrier drift
- carrier diffusion
- Graded impurity
distribution
- The Hall Effect.
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Week 12 ~ 13
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Chapter
6: Nonequilibrium excess
carriers in semiconductors (6 hours)
- Carrier generation
and recombination
- Characteristics of
excess carrier
- Ambipolar transport
- Quasi-fermi energy
levels
- Excess-carrier
lifetime
- Surface effects
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Week 14
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Chapter
7: The pn Junction (3 hours)
- Basic
structure of the pn junction
- Zero
applied bias
- Reverse
applied bias
- Nonuniformly doped junctions.
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Week 15
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Chapter 8: The pn junction diode (3 hours)
- pn junction current
- Generation-recombination
currents
- Junction breakdown
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Week 16-18
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Revision Week and Final Examination
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EXAM:
Test 1
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Week 8: Friday, 1 November 2013 at P16 from 5pm to
6pm
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Test 2
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Week 13: Friday, 6
December 2013 at P16 from 5pm to 6pm
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TEXTBOOK :
Donald
A. Neamen : "Semiconductor Physics and Devices, Basic Principles",
Third Edition, McGraw Hill.
REFERENCES :
1.
Betty Lise Anderson & Richard L. Anderson (2005), Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices,
Mcgraw-Hill.
2.
Ben G. Streetman & Sanjay Kumar Banerjee (2006), Solid State Electronic Devices, Pearson.
2. Pierret R.F. : "Semiconductor
Fundermentals", Addison Wesley, 1996.
3. Linda
Edward-Shea : "The Essence of Solid State Electronics", Prentice
Hall, 1996.
GRADING:
Item
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No of test/quiz/assignment |
Duration
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Assignments
& Presentation (Evaluation of LL1-2, CS1)
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10
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2
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Quizzes (Evaluation
of CTPS1-3)
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10
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Multiple
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Test 1
(week 8)
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15
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1
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1 hour
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Test 2
(week 13)
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15
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1
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1 hour
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Final
Exam
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50
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1
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2.5 hours
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