EE 534
Solid-State Devices

Catalog Description:

Energy bands and carrier concentration, carrier transport phenomena, p-n junction, bipolar devices, unipolar devices, photonic devices, and microwave devices.

Credits: 3.0

Class Schedule: 3 hours/week.

Prerequisites: EE434.

Course Objectives:

  1. Learn Energy Band theory of solids
  2. Learn to determine carrier concentrations and carrier transport in semiconductors
  3. Learn the working principles of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor
  4. Learn the working principles of Light-emitting diodes and semiconductor lasers
  5. Learn the working principles of photodetectors.
  6. Learn the working principles of solar cells and microwave devices

Textbooks and References:

Solid State Electronic Devices, 6th ed., Ben G. Streetman and Sanjay K. Banerjee, Prentice Hall (2006).

Topics Covered:

Upon completion of the course, the students should be able to:

  1. Understand the crystal structure, valence bond, and energy band of semiconductor.
  2. Understand the concept of density of state and Fermi-Dirac distribution.
  3. Calculate the concentration of carrier in semiconductor.
  4. Understand the carrier mobility and the carrier diffusion process in semiconductor.
  5. Understand the concept of carrier injection and carrier recombination phenomena.
  6. Understand metal-semiconductor contacts and Schottky diode current-voltage characteristics.
  7. Understand thermal equilibrium condition and voltage bias for a p-n junction.
  8. Calculate the depletion region and incremental depletion capacitance for abrupt and linearly graded junctions.
  9. Understand the current density equation of p-n diode.
  10. Understand minority carrier storage and transient behavior for p-n diode.
  11. Understand the working principle of heterojunction transistor.
  12. Understand the working principle of p-n-p transistor.
  13. Understand the working principle of photodetectors.
  14. Understand the current-voltage characteristics of field-effect transistor.
  15. Understand the working principle of MOSFET.
  16. Understand the working principle of semiconductor laser diodes.
  17. Understand the working principle of silicon p-i-n photodiodes.
  18. Understand the working principle of silicon solar cells.
  19. Understand the working principle of GaAs microwave device.
Prepared by: Dr. Long Lee
Date of preparation: 9/31/2008