Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisite: Major status in ECE.
Description
Covers semiconductor material properties including crystal structure, classification of crystals, and electronic structure of atoms within the semiconductor. Provides derivations of principles of quantum mechanics and application to problems such as the quantum well. Covers energy bands and changes to energy levels within energy bands from doping, fundamentals of carrier generation, transportation, recombination, and the structure and operation principles of the basic solid-state p-n junction.