Instructor

Huikai Xie

Office: 427 NEB

Phone: 392-4929

E-mail: hkxie@ece.ufl.edu

Office hours: M W F 5pm-6pm

Teaching Assistant

Zivin Park

Office: 139 LAR

Phone: 372-3532 or 846-1100

E-mail: zpark@ecel.ufl.edu

Office hours: T-7 R-7,8

Textbook

Semiconductor Physical Electronics by Sheng S. Li, Plenum Publishing Co., New York, 1993; distributed by Kluwer Academy, Boston.

Credits

Total of 3 credits

Class meetings

M W F – Period 9 (4:05pm – 4:55pm)           LAR 239

Goals

Provide the first year graduate students with a comprehensive coverage of the fundamental semiconductor physics that is essential to the understanding of basic device physics and the operation principle of a wide variety of semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices as well as novel quantum effect devices.

Topics

·        Classification of solids and crystal structures. (4 hours)

·        Lattice dynamics and phonon spectrum. (4)

·        Semiconductor statistics. (4)

·        Energy band theory: one-dimensional (1-D), 2-D and 3-D systems. (8)

·        Equilibrium properties of semiconductors. (6)

·        Recombination mechanisms and excess carrier phenomena (6)

·        Carrier transport phenomena and scattering mechanisms in semiconductors (8)

Homework

 6 homework assignments.

 It's OK to talk about the class and the assignments with your friends. It's

 not OK to just copy their work. Cheating and plagiarism will be punished

     according to UF's standard procedures.

     Late assignments are only accepted with permission of instructor.

Grading

6 Homework         20%  (drop the lowest score)

1 Midterm exam    25%

1 Project               25%

1 Final exam          30%

Reference books

C. Kittel, “Introduction to Solid State Physics,” 7th Ed., Wiley, 1994.

R. A. Smith, “Semiconductors,” Cambridge Press, 2nd Ed., 1980.

R. H. Bube, “Electronic Properties of Crystalline Solids,” Academic Press, 2nd Ed., 1984.

J. P. McKelvey, “Solid State and Semiconductor Physics,” Wiley, (1986).

M. Shur, “Physics of Semiconductor Devices,” Prentice Hall, New York, 1990.

H. Kroemer, “Quantum Mechanics,” Prentice Hall, 1994.

  S. M. Sze, “Physics of Semiconductor Devices,” Wiley, New York, 1981.