Semiconductor Materials & Devices (MS2230)

Course details:

• Title: Semiconductor Materials & Devices
• Credits: 3
• Total lecture hours: ~ 33 hours

Syllabus:

Semiconductor crystals - Band formation in semiconductors - Direct & Indirect Band gap semiconductors - Concept of holes - carrier concentration - Effective mass - heavy and light mass carriers - Doping in semiconductors - Band bending - Heavily doped semiconductors - Excitons - metal-semiconductor contacts - pn diodes - Lattice - optical and acoustic phonons - thermal conductivity - Theory of specific heat capacity in solids

Reference Books:

1. Charles Kittle, Solid state physics.
2. Rolf E. Hummel, Electronic properties of materials.