The objective is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of semiconductor materials and devices, enabling them to design and enhance the charge transport properties of these components.

Midterm exam 30%
Final exam 40%
Homework 20%
Attendance 10%

1. Crystal properties and growth of semiconductors (1st week ~ 2nd week)
- Crystals - Czochralski method
- Epitaxial thin film growth

2. Atoms and electrons (3rd week~ 4th week)
- Bohr model - wave-particle duality of nature in quantum mechanics
- Schrödinger equation - electronic structure of atoms and the periodic table

3. Energy bands and charge carriers in semiconductor (5th week ~ 7th week)
- Bonding Forces and Energy Bands in Solids - Charge Carriers in Semiconductors
- Carrier Concentrations, The Fermi Level - Drift of Carriers in Electric and Magnetic Fields
- Conductivity and Mobility

* 8th week: Midterm exam

4. Excess carriers in semiconductors (9th week ~ 11th week)
- Optical Absorption, Luminescence - Carrier Lifetime and Photoconductivity
- Diffusion and Drift of Carriers - Diffusion and Recombination of Excess Carriers

5. PN junctions and metal-semiconductor junctions (12th week ~ 15th week)
- PN diode fabrication - Energy diagram (PN electrostatics)
- I-V characteristics (ideal diode) - Minority & Majority currents
- Junction capacitance - Junction model
- junction breakdown - generation / recombination current
  - Ideal MS contacts - Energy diagram
- Current / voltage characteristics

* 16th week: Final exam

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