Professor Serge Luryi

Fall 1998 ESE 511 Solid State Electronics

Lecture 2 Content

 

Lect 2 

Lecture notes available 
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Rm 263 Light Eng Bldg  

 

 Chapter 1: Basic Semiconductor Physics, cont'd 

Band Structure: Electrons and Holes 
Effective Mass Approximation 
Semiconductor Statistics 
Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Compensated Semiconductors 
Density of states in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions 
Fermi Integrals in 1D, 2D, 3D 
Band structure in a 2D inversion layer 
Quantum size effect in a polySi grain* 

Book: Sects. 1.6 - 1.15 
*Lifshitz et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 51, 1824-1826 (1987) [ notes.pdf (23K) ]

 

Book

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

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