Syllabus

Energy Bands and charge carriers in semiconductors: Energy bands, direct and indirect semiconductors, Electrons and holes, Intrinsic and extrinsic materials, Fermi-Dirac distribution function, electron and holes concentrations at equilibrium, space charge neutrality, conductivity and mobility, Hall effect (10 hrs.)

Excess carriers in semiconductors: Drift, Diffusion: Current equation, Einstein’s Relationship, Continuity equation Generation & Recombination: Mechanisms, Minority Carrier Lifetime (8 hrs.)
P-N junction: Principles, DC model, Capacitance of Reverse bias PN junction, store charge effects, Metal Semiconductor contacts: Schottky diode, Ohmic Contact MOS Capacitor MOSFET: Principles, C-V Characteristics, Second order effects (8 hrs.)
BJT: Principles, C-V Characteristics, Second order effects (4 hrs.)
IC Technology: Bipolar IC Technologies MOSFET Technologies BICMOS Technologies Microwave FETs & Diodes IGBT, Thyristors. (8 hrs.)

To understand Atoms, Electrons, Energy Bands and Charge Carriers in Semiconductors.

To comprehend impact of Excess Carriers in Semiconductors.

To interpret characteristics of PN Junction and Junction Diodes.

To grasp characteristics of Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT).
To apprehend characteristics of MOSFET.

After the completion of this course, students will be able to:

CO1: explain the atomic structure of solids and the basic physics of semiconductor materials.
CO2: describe various properties of semiconductor materials using mathematical equations.
CO3: apply the knowledge of semiconductors to illustrate the functioning of the different electronic devices.
CO4: evaluate and judge analytically the performance of the different electronic devices.
CO5: identify the fabrication steps of the different electronic devices.

B G Streetman , S K Banerjee, Solid State electronics Devices, PHI , Sixth Edition

Simon M. Sze, Kwok K. Ng, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Wiley

S. Dimitrijev, Principles of Semiconductor Devices, Oxford University Press , 2005

M.S.Tyagi, Introduction to Semiconductor Materials and Devices, Wiley Student Edition