Semiconductors and Solid State Physics courses at FEIT UNIZA
Dr. Joseph Gerges – CESI Ecole d’ingénieurs, Arras, France
TIME SCHEDULE
March 8th – 9th (Room BB 425)
Tuesday – 11:00 – 1st course Semiconductors
– 14:00 – 2nd course Semiconductors
Wednesday – 10:30 – 3rd course Semiconductors
– 14:00 – Solid State Physics
March 10th (MS Teams)
Thursday – 9:45 – presentation of CESI Ecole d’ingénieurs
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Semiconductors – 3 x 2 hours
(basic course – mainly for Master study programs)
- Introduction
- Energy Bands and Carrier Concentration in Thermal Equilibrium
• Semiconductor materials
• Basic crystal structures (recap)
• Valence bonds
• Energy bands
• Intrinsic carrier concentration
• Donors acceptors - Carrier transport phenomena
• Carrier drift
• Carrier diffusion
• Generation and recombination process - P-N Junction
• Thermal equilibrium condition
• Depletion region
• Work functions
• Metal-Semiconductor junctions - Optical devices
• Radiative transitions and optical absorption
• Light emitting diodes
• Spontaneous emission & stimulated emission
Wednesday 14:00 – Solid State Physics – 2 hours – introduction (mainly for PhD students)
• Structure of solids,
• Symmetry,
• Bravais lattices,
• Unit cell,
• Miller indices,
• Simple crystal structure,
• Reciprocal lattice,
• Van der Waals and Repulsive interactions,
• Lennard Jones potential
• etc.