Professor Serge Luryi

Fall 1998 ESE 511 Solid State Electronics

Lecture 6 Content

 
 

Lect 6 

Lecture notes available 
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 		 Chapter 2: Junctions and Barriers, wrap up

Esaki tunnel diode
Backward diode
Double-barrier resonant tunnel diode
Heterostructures: band alignment problem
Double heterostructure laser 

Book: Chapter 2, all problems 
Simple problems to practice (from previous years' tests):  [ 21K.pdf ]   [ 17K.ps.gz ]

Chapter 3: Bipolar Junction Transistor 

 homo-junction and heterojunction npn transistor
 emitter efficiency
 doping levels in homojunction transistors
 common-emitter characteristics
 base transport factor and current gain
 high frequency gain
 Early effect


 Book: Chapter 3 

 

Book

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