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EE-656: Electronic Transport in Semiconductors
Fall Semesters, Alternate Years
Fall 2009, ARMS 1109, MWF 10:30 - 11:20
Fall 2009
Course Objective
To develop a basic understanding of the theory of charge carrier transport in semiconductors and semiconductor devices and an ability to apply it to the anslysis of experiments and devices.
Course Descripton
This is a course about how charge flows in semiconductors with an emphasis on transport in nanoscale devices. The course consists of three main parts. Part 1 focuses on near-equilibrium transport in the presence of small gradients in the electrochemical potential or temperature, with or without the application of a small magnetic field. The emphasis in Part 2 is on the physics of carrier scattering and how the microscopic scattering processes are related to macroscopic relaxation times and mean-free-paths. Part three examines high-field transport in bulk semiconductors and so-called “non-local” transport in sub-micron devices. The course concludes with a brief introduction to quantum transport. The objective of the course is to develop a broad understanding of the basic concepts needed to understand modern electronic devices. It is designed for those who work on electronic devices – whether they are experimentalists, device theorists, or computationalists. The course is intended to be accessible to students with a general, introductory background in semiconductors, such as that obtained by taking EE-606 at Purdue University.
This course is part of a the
"Electronics from the Bottom Up"
educational initiative being spearheaded by the Network for
Computational Nanotechnology with support from Intel Corp.
Course Announcements
- If you were not in class to pick up your take home exam on Monday, see Cheryl Haines in EE-313 to pick up a copy (Do not take a copy from another 656 student)
- The Exam 2 that was handing out had some issues with the fonts. They all seem to be pretty obvious, but a correct version for your reference is posted on handout section.
- Lecture 32, and solution to HW27,29,30,and 31 have been posted.
- Upcoming class schedule:
1) Monday, Nov. 16: L32: High-field transport
2) Monday, Nov. 16: 5:00-6:00 PM in EE-115: HW discussion
3) Wednesday, Nov 17: NO CLASS
4) Friday, Nov. 19: NO CLASS
5) Monday: Nov. 23: Discussion of Exam II
- Information on Exam II:
Material covered: carrier scattering and balance equations
Take Home (similar to Exam I)
Handed out: Monday, Nov. 16, Due: Monday, Nov. 23 BEGINNING OF CLASS
- Final exam is scheduled for Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1-3 p.m. at PHYS 223.
- Lecture 31, HW 31, and solution to HW28 have been posted.
- Lecture 30, HW 30, and solution to HW26 have been posted.
- Notes on Scattering and Mobility in 1D, 2D, and 3D has been posted on the handouts section.
- Lecture 29 and HW 29 have been posted.
- Syllabus has been revised.
- Lecture 28 and HW 28 have been posted.
- Lecture 27 and HW 27 have been posted.
- Lecture 26 and HW 26 have been posted.
- Solutions to HW16~25 have been posted.
- Lecture 25 and HW 25 have been posted.
- Lecture 24 and HW 24 have been posted.
- Lecture 23 and HW 23 have been posted.
- Lecture 22 and HW 22 have been posted.
- Lecture 21 and HW 21 have been posted.
- Lecture 20 and HW 20 have been posted.
- Lecture 19 and HW 19 have been posted.
- Exam1 solution has been posted on the handouts section.
- Lecture 18 has been posted.
- Correction to Exam 1, Problem 9: The integral, I_subj, should include a term, (-partial f_0/partial E) as shown in the corrected exam, which is postend on handout section.
- Revised Lecture 11 and HW4 have been posted.
- Lecture 17 and solutions to HW 15 have been posted.
- Exam1 information have been posted on the handouts section.
- Lecture 15 and 16, homework Assignment 15 and 16, and solutions to HW 14 have been posted.
- Lecture 14, Homework Assignment 14, and solutions to HW 12 and 13 have been posted.
- The solutions to HW9 and 10 have been posted.
- Lecture 11 has been posted.
- Lecture 12,13 and Homework Assignment 12,13 have been posted.
- Lecture 9,10 and Homework Assignment 9,10 have been posted.
- A corrected Lecture 8 has been posted.
- Solutions to HW7 and 8 have been posted.
- Lecture 8 and Homework Assignment 8 have been posted.
- Lecture 7 and Homework Assignment 7 have been posted.
- Lecture 6 and solutions to HW4 and 5 have been posted.
- Lecture 5 and Homework Assignment 5 have been posted.
- Lecture 4 and Homework Assignment 4 have been posted.
- The solutions to HW2 and 3 have been posted.
- The change in location to ARMS 1109 takes place IMMEDIATELY - effective Friday, August 28.
- The online lecutres are available at https://nanohub.org/resources/7281.
- The solutions to HW1 have been posted.
- Course information and syllabus have been revised.
- Lecture 1,2,3 and Homework Assignment 1,2,3 have been posted.
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