EE-656: Electronic Transport in Semiconductors

Syllabus

Part 1:	Ballistic transport in ultra-small devices		5 weeks
	This part of the course will follow class notes to be handed out. Supplemental reading from the course text is also listed.
	Distribution functions	(Sec. 3.1)
	3D, 2D, and 1D carriers	(Sec. 1.5)
	Density-of-states	(Sec. 1.4)
	Directed moments	(Sec. 9.2)
	Ballistic transport: semiclassical	(Secs. 3.2.1, 3.2.2)
	Semiclassical carrier transport	(Sec. 9.2.1)
	Ballistic transport: quantum
	Resistance of a ballistic conductor	(Secs. 9.9, 9.10)
Part 2:	Collision-dominated transport		5 weeks
	The Boltzmann transport equation	(Secs. 3.1 - 3.7)
	Coupled flow equations	(Secs. 4.1 - 4.10)
	Balance equations	(Secs. 5.1 - 5.7)
Part 3:	High-field and off-equilibrium transport		5 weeks
	Carrier scattering	(Sec. 2.1, 1.7, 1.8, 2.2-2.12, 2.14)
	Monte Carlo simulation	(Secs. 6.1 - 6.5)
	High-field transport in bulk semiconductors	(Secs. 7.1 - 7.5)
	Off-equilibrium transport in devices	(Secs. 8.1 - 8.8)

A PDF document of the entire course syllabus and associated information is available: ee656syllabusF02.pdf