Professor Serge Luryi

Fall 1998 ESE 511 Solid State Electronics

Lecture 1 Content

 

Lect 1  

Lecture notes available 
EE Grad Student Mailroom 
Rm 263 Light Eng Bldg 
(open 24 hours) 
Chapter 1: Basic Semiconductor Physics 

Atomic States 
Periodic Table and Semiconductors 
Chemical Bonds and Formation of Bands 
An Bm Magic Number 8 ( m + n = 8 ) 
Tetrahedral Configuration 
Solid State Structure 
Crystallographic Directions and Crystal Planes; 
Miller indices 
FCC Bravais Lattice versus DIAMOND and ZINCBLENDE Structures 
Direct and Reciprocal Lattice 


Book: Sects. 1.1 - 1.5 
Problems: 1-2-(all) to 1-5-(all) 
 

 

Book

M. S. Shur, Physics of semiconductor devices, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (1990).
 


 

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