Solid State Electronics for Engineering I (EE/MT/PEP561)

Become acquainted with the fundamentals of semiconductors and basic building blocks of semiconductor devices. Learn about crystal structures and bonding. Acquire knowledge of the statistical description of electron gas. Master the free-electron theory of metals. Gain an understanding of the motion of electrons in periodic lattices-energy bands, Fermi levels, semiconductors, and insulators. Learn how to detect electrons and holes in semiconductors, impurity effects, generation and recombination, mobility, and other electrical properties of semiconductors. Understand thermal and optical properties, p-n junctions, and metal-semiconductor contacts.