Syllabus

 

EE 339                        Semiconductor Materials and Devices                       Fall 2003

 

Time and Place:             Shepard 378   Tuesday and Thursday 5:00-6:15 pm

 

Instructor:            Prof. David Crouse  

                        Office T614

                        Phone (212) 650-5330

                        dcrouse@ccny.cuny.edu

 

Office Hours:  3:30-4:50 pm            Tuesday and Thursday or by appointment

 

Required            1.            Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals 2nd Edition

Texts:                         by Robert F. Pierret

Volume VI of the Modular Series on Solid State Devices

                        2.            The PN Junction Diode
                                    by Gerold W. Neudeck
                                    Volume II of the Modular Series on Solid State Devices

 

Reserved                    Introduction to Solid State Physics

Texts:                         by Charles Kittel

                       

                                    Solid State Electronic Devices

                                    by Ben G. Streetman and Sanjay Banerjee

 

Homework:                 About six homework assignments will be given throughout the semester in a fairly regular fashion.  Homework assignments will be accepted up to one week late with a 10 point (out of 100) reduction.   Homework assignments that are later than one week will not be accepted.

 

Webpage:                   http://www-ee.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/www/web/crouse/crouse.html

 

Tentative

Exam Schedule:            Exam 1             TBD

                                    Exam 2             TBD

                                    Cumulative Final                 TBD

 

Grade Evaluation:            Homework            30%

                                    Exam 1 & 2            20%

                                    Final                 30%

 

                       

                                   


Tentative Course Outline

 

Week

Topics

Reference Material

1

Introduction to Semiconductors and Materials

Pierret Chap. 1

1-3

The Crystalline State: 

     Crystal structures, symetries and defects

     Mechanical and electrical properties

     Reciprocal lattice and x-ray diffraction

 

Pierret Chap. 1, Notes

Pierret Chap. 1, Kittel Chap. 1

Kittel Chap. 2, Notes

4-5

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
     Bohr atom
     Wave-particle duality

     Schrodinger equation

     Operators, Uncertainty Principle

     1-D box and other examples

 

Pierret Chap. 2

Pierret Chap. 2

Pierret Chap. 2

Pierret Chap. 2

Pierret Chap. 2

Exam 1

Covering crystal aspects, quantum mechanics

 

6-7

Energy Band Theory
     Bloch Theorem and Brillouin Zones
     Kronig-Penney Model
     Charge carriers, effective mass, band gaps

 

8-9

Charge Carrier Statistics          
     Density of States
     Fermi Function
     Impurities, dopants
     Charge carrier concentration relations

 

10

Recombination-Generation

 

11

Carrier Transport
     Drift, mobility, resistivity, Hall Effect

     Diffusion, Einstein relationship
     Current Equations

 

Exam2

Covering carrier statistics, r-g, and transport

 

12

P-N Junction Introduction, structure, fabrication
     Photolithography
     Dopants:  diffusion and implantation

 

13-15

P-N Junction Equilibrium Electrostatics
     Depletion region
     Built-in potential

 

16

Ideal Diode Equations

     Forward and reverse bias I-V characteristics

 

 

Final

Cumulative final covering all topics covered in course.