Course number: EE 80656
Instructor: Debdeep Jena (djena@nd.edu, http://www.nd.edu/~djena)
Lectures: Wednesdays, 5:00 - 7:30pm, with a 10 min break
Location: DBRT 244
Course description
The purpose of this class is to arm graduate students with a solid understanding of charge and energy transport phenomena in semiconductors. It is of interest to students from the Electrical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering students whose research interests are at the intersection of materials and charge/heat transport. The concepts developed are directly applied in designing high-speed semiconductor devices (transistors, lasers, etc), modern nanowire/nanocrystal based devices, energy-harvesting devices that exploit charge generation and transport (photovoltaics) as well as those that exploit charge+energy transport (thermoelectrics).
Topics to be covered
Textbook
Fundamentals of Carrier Transport (by Mark Lundstrom)
· Hardcover: 464 pages
· Publisher:
· Language: English
· ISBN: 0521631343
Other references/handouts
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Topic |
Notes |
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1) Bandstructure |
k.p theory (Notes) | Low-Dimensional Structures (Notes) |
09/21/06 |
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2) Transport |
09/21/06 |
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Project/Seminar topics
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No. |
Student/Group |
Topic |
Problem definition (Presentation) |
Problem definition (Written Report) |
Final Reports (pdf Files) |
Final Presentation (Schedule) |
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11/15/2006 |
11/29/2006 |
12/11/2006 |
12/12/2006 |
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1) |
Albert Wang |
Bandstructure of Indium Nitride. |
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2) |
Lian Chuanxin |
Balance-equation analysis of impact ionization. |
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3) |
Williams Calderon |
Instabilities in 2D electron flow in semiconductors. |
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4) |
Xiu Xing |
Modeling of transport in HBTs. |
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5) |
Joey Herzog |
Phonons in AlN/GaN superlattice structures. |
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6) |
Aniruddha Konar |
Electron-phonon interaction in semiconductor nanowires. |
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7) |
Cao Yu |
Superlattice phonon cavities. |
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8) |
David Deen / Robin Joyce |
Effect of dislocation scattering on quantum transport at high magnetic fields. |
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9) |
Amol Singh / Ze Zhang |
Effect of dielectric mismatch on transport in Nanostructures. |
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10) |
YongJin Cho / Shi-Tsin Lin |
Tunneling transport through magnetic barriers. |
Notes for written reports:
- The first writeup (problem definition) should be written as a “letter”, not more than 3 pages long (in a 2-column format) including an abstract, figures & references.
- The best example of what the document should look like is an article in Applied Physics Letters (see here).
- A LaTeX formatted document would be preferred. It is strongly suggested you use RevTeX templates available from journal websites such as Applied Physics Letters and/or Physical Review Letters.
- If you prefer to use other word-processors, please follow the same rules as mentioned above. For the final report (which will be a maximum of 6 pages), you can use the first report and expand it.
Assignment Problems
1) Lundstrom, Chapter 1
Bandstructure, Electron Counting & DOS: Problems 1.4, 1.8, 1.10, 1.14
Electron Densities and Energies: Problems 1.5, 1.6, 1.12
Scattering and Currents: Problems 1.1, 1.2, 1.15
Maintained by Debdeep Jena (djena [at] nd.edu)