ECE 535

• Microelectronics and Photonics

Introductory quantum mechanics of semiconductors; energy bands; dynamics of Block electrons in static and high-frequency electric and magnetic fields; equilibrium statistics; transport theory, diffusion, drift and thermoelectric effects; and characteristics of p-n junctions, heterojunctions, and transistor devices.

Prerequisites:

• ECE 340 or equivalent Solid State Electronics course
• PHYS 486 or Equivalent Quantum Mechanics course

Same as PHYS 565.

• Review of basic quantum mechanics
• Lattice vibrations
• Symmetry of crystal and band theory
• Carrier statistics
• Scattering theory and Boltzmann equation
• Generation recombination
• Device equations
• Heterojunction
• Diodes
• Transistors
• Electron dynamics, III: recombination-generation-trapping: general classifications via physical models; kinetics of selected mechanisms, thermal, optical, interband, band-impurity transitions, Auger processes

Topics:

• Review of basic quantum mechanics
• Lattice vibrations
• Symmetry of crystal and band theory
• Carrier statistics
• Scattering theory and Boltzmann equation
• Generation recombination
• Device equations
• Heterojunction
• Diodes
• Transistors
• Electron dynamics, III: recombination-generation-trapping: general classifications via physical models; kinetics of selected mechanisms, thermal, optical, interband, band-impurity transitions, Auger processes

Same as PHYS 535.