EE-606: Solid State Devices

Handouts

All handout files can be found in the downloads directory or can be accessed using the links below. Also, the older version of the notes are available at nanohub website.

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1: Crystal Structure (part 1)
• Lecture 2: Crystal Structure (part 2)
• Lecture 3: Miller Indices/Quantum Mechanics
• Lecture 4: Quantum Mechanics: Examples
• Lecture 5: Energy Band Theory
• Lecture 6: Effective Mass and E-K Relations
• Lecture 7: 3D Brilloin Zone, Constant Energy Surfaces
• Lecture 8: 1D and 3D Density of States
• Extra Notes: Measurement of Effective Mass
• Lecture 9: Fermi-Dirac Statistics
• Extra Notes: Optimization with Constraints - Lagrange Multipliers
• Lecture10: Band diagram, potential, doping
• Lecture 11: Statistics of Donor/Acceptor States
• Lecture 12: Equilibrium Carrier Concentration
• Lecture 13: Types of Recombination Events
• Lecture 14: Derivation of SRH Formula
• Lecture 15: Analysis of Surface Recombination
• Lecture 16: Drift, mobility, and resistivity
• Lecture 17: Hall Measurement, Diffusion, Recombination
• Lecture 18: Continuity Equation
• Lecture 19: Numerical Solution of Drift-Diffusion Equation
• Lecture 20: P-N Junction Electrostatics
• Lecture 21: P-N Junction I-V Characteristics
• Lecture 22: P-N Junction Nonideal Effects
• Lecture 23: Small signal Response
• Lecture 24: Large signal Response
• Lecture 25: Metal-Semiconductor Schottky Diode (I)
• Lecture 26: Metal-Semiconductor Schottky Diode (II)
• Lecture 27: Bipolar Junction Transistors: Introduction
• A Journal and Courier Article!
• Lecture 28: Nonideal BJT Characteristics
• Lecture 29: Modern BJTs and Dynamic Response
• Lecture 30: Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors-I
• Lecture 31: Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors-II
• An Interesting Take on Transistor History!
• Lecture 32: MOS-C Electrostatics - I
• Lecture 33: MOS-C Electrostatics - II
• Lecture 34: MOS C-V Characteristics
• Lecture 35: MOSFET I-V Characteristics - 1
• Lecture 36: MOSFET I-V Characteristics - 2
• Lecture 37: Nonideal-Characteristics
• Lecture 38: Modern MOSFET
• Lecture 39: Reliability Issues
• Lecture 40: Conclusions

Additional Material