Advanced Semiconductor Physics

EE698D, Fall 2004

Instructor

Debdeep Jena

Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Office: 200 Cushing

Web: http://www.nd.edu/~djena

Class Hours

Fall 2004 - Tuesdays and Thursdays

9:30am – 10:45am, DeBartolo 242.

Office hours: 11:00 am – noon, Tuesdays and Thursdays (after class).

Information

• Grading, assignments, and project evaluation policy.
• Suggested Project topics.
• Project groups.
• Plan for Last 3 weeks, Lectures, Reports, and Talks

Objectives

The class will provide graduate students with a solid understanding of the basic underlying physics of semiconductors that lead to practical applications. Starting from electronic bandstructure, we will cover topics such as electron-phonon interactions, charge scattering and transport, and optical properties of semiconductors. The effects of quantum confinement in modern nanoscale electronic and optical devices will be covered in detail. The course is geared to be a bridge between physics and engineering; much of the physical concepts covered will be shown to be the basis of practical semiconductor devices currently in commercial production.

• Students will be required to choose a research topic for a project early in the class and make presentations and write term papers. Evaluation will be based on assignment solutions, reports, and presentations.
• Project reports that are of sufficiently high quality will be considered for publication in peer-reviewed journals, and can be presented by students in conferences.

Topics

|| Semiconductor Bandstructure || Phonons, Lattice vibrations || Defects, Doping || Transport || Optical properties || Quantum-confined structures || Superlattices, Quantum wells, wires, and dots || Device applications ||

Prerequisites

Undergraduate level Solid-State Physics and Quantum Mechanics.

Textbooks

Required

• Fundamentals of Semiconductors: Physics and Material Properties

Peter Y. Yu & Manuel Cardona, Springer-Verlag (2001).

Suggested References

• Physics of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors

John Davies, Cambridge University Press (1997).

• Physical Properties of Semiconductors

Wolfe, Holonyak, and Stillman, Prentice-Hall (1989).

Assignments

No.	Topics.	Posted	Due	Solution.
1.	X-Ray diffraction, Density of states	08/30/04	09/07/04	pdf
2.	Bandstructure of Crystals	09/10/04	09/21/04	pdf
3.	Bandstructure | Transport in perfect crystals	09/24/04	10/05/04	pdf
4.	Scattering & Transport in Real Semiconductors	10/04/04	10/14/04	pdf
5.	Optical properties of Semiconductors	11/16/04	11/30/04	pdf
6.	Design a Problem	11/30/04	12/07/04	None!

Notes/Course Materials

Topic	Notes	Posted
Bandstructure	k.p theory (Notes) | Low-Dimensional Structures (Notes)	09/21/04
Bandstructure	LCAO (Mathematica) | Pseudopotential (Mathematica)	09/24/04
Transport	Transport theory (Notes) | Onsager Relations (Notes)	09/26/04
Defects/Phonons
Optical Properties of Wells, Wires, & Dots & Device Applications	Lecture by Prof. Jim Merz	11/22/04
Summary	Talk summarizing topics covered in this course (Jena)	12/07/04
NanoStructures	Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology : A Workbook (by Prof. M. Kuno) – detailed notes shared with this class.	09/27/04

Class Projects

No.	Topic.	Team	Talk	Report
1.	Strain effects on p-type conductivity in p-type GaN	John, Su Ning, Lili	ppt	pdf
2.	Doping and Transport in thin Nanowires	Anubhav, Qin, Jeff	ppt	pdf
3.	Design of a 3-D photonic crystals	Dane, Jing	ppt	pdf
4.	Planar Hall Effect in ferromagnetic GaMnAs	Zhiguo, Shaoping	ppt	pdf

Links to similar classes in other Universities

• Class @ UIUC taught by Prof. Umberto Ravaioli.
• Class @ MIT taught by Prof. Terry Orlando.
• Class @ UCSD taught by Prof. Edward Yu.
• Class @ RPI taught by Prof. Fred Schubert.

Contact

Email: djena@nd.edu if you have any questions.