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)

  1. Introduction
  2. Energy Bands and Carrier Concentration in Thermal Equilibrium
    • Semiconductor materials
    • Basic crystal structures (recap)
    • Valence bonds
    • Energy bands
    • Intrinsic carrier concentration
    • Donors acceptors
  3. Carrier transport phenomena
    • Carrier drift
    • Carrier diffusion
    • Generation and recombination process
  4. P-N Junction
    • Thermal equilibrium condition
    • Depletion region
    • Work functions
    • Metal-Semiconductor junctions
  5. 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.