Professor Serge Luryi

Fall 1998 ESE 511 Solid State Electronics

Lecture 3 Content

 
 

Lect 3 

Lecture notes available 
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 		 Chapter 1: Basic Semiconductor Physics, wrap-up 

Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Compensated Semiconductors 
Temperature dependence of n, freeze-out 
Lattice Vibrations; Einstein and Debye models 
Carrier Transport 
Conduction Laws by dimensional analysis* 
Drift-Diffusion Equation 
Quasi Fermi Level (Imref) 
Generation and Recombination 
Boltzmann Transport Equation 
Nonequilibrium electron ensembles** 

* S. Luryi, "Device building blocks", Chap. 2 
in High-Speed Semiconductor Devices, ed. by S. M. Sze 
(Wiley Interscience, 1990) pp. 82-84  
** S. Luryi, "Hot electrons in semiconductor devices" 
in Hot Electrons in Semiconductors, ed by N. Balkan 
(Oxford University Press, 1997) pp. 385-427.  

Book: Chapter 1 (all) 
Problems: Chapter 1 (all)  
 

 

Book

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