Week 1 ~ 2

:

Chapter 1 : The Crystal Structure of Solids (6 hours)

• Semiconductor materials
• Types of solids
•  Space lattices
•  Atomic bonding
•  Imperfections and Impurities in solids
•  Growth of Semiconductor materials

Week 3 ~ 4

:

Chapter 2: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (6 hours)

• Principles of quantum mechanics
• Schrodinger’s wave equation
• Applications of Schrodinger’s wave equation.

Week 5 ~ 6

:

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

Week 7 ~ 9

:

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

Week 8

:

Mid-Semester Break

Week 10 ~ 11

:

Chapter 5: Carrier transport phenomena (6 hours)

• Carrier drift
• carrier diffusion
• Graded impurity distribution
• The Hall Effect.
  

Week 12 ~ 13

:

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

Week 14

:

Chapter 7: The pn Junction (3 hours)

• Basic structure of the pn junction
• Zero applied bias
• Reverse applied bias
• Nonuniformly doped junctions.

Week 15

:

Chapter 8: The pn junction diode (3 hours)

• pn junction current
• Generation-recombination currents
• Junction breakdown

Week 16-18

:

Revision Week and Final Examination

Test 1

:

Week 8:  TBA

Test 2

:

Week 13: TBA    

Item

Mark (%)

No of test/quiz/assignment

Duration

CO (%)

Assignments & Presentation (Evaluation of LL1-2, CS1)

10

1 Presentation
1 Project

-

CO4 - 5
CO4 - 5

Quizzes (Evaluation of CTPS1-3)

10

6 Quizzes

-

Q1-3 CO1 - 5
Q4-6 CO2 - 5

Test 1 (week 7)

15

1

1 hour

T1 CO1 – 15

Test 2 (week 13)

15

1

1 hour

T2 CO2 – 15

Final Exam

50

1

2.5 hours

Part A CO2 – 10
Part B CO3 – 40

Item

Mark (%)

Assignments & Presentation (Evaluation of LL1-2, CS1)

10

2

-

Quizzes (Evaluation of CTPS1-3)

10

Multiple

-

Test 1 (week 8)

15

1

1 hour

Test 2 (week 13)

15

1

1 hour

Final Exam

50

1

2.5 hours