Course Title
Pre-Requisite Course
PH-101
Solid State Electronics
Applied Physics Course Code
ES361
Textbook:
1. Solid State Electronic Devices- Seventh Edition Global
Edition - Ben G. Streetman and Sanjay Kumar Banerjee
2. Semiconductor Physics and Devices - Basic Principles”
4th Edition (2012) by Donald A. Neamen
Instructor
Muhammad Usman, Ph.D.
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Expectation From The Course
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Goal of the course
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• This course introduces students to the theory and applications of solid-state electronics
• The theory of solid state electronics from
basic structure to the carrier transport to pn-junction and metal-
semiconductor contacts
• The course will also cover solid state devices and applications such as
field-effect transistors (FETs),
metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs),
bipolar transistors etc.
At the end of the course, students are expected to
Be knowledgeable on the theory and necessity of solid-state electronics and
may implement them in their future academic as well as industrial professions
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Applications of the course
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Solid-state Drive
Solid-state electricity meters
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Course Outline
From Prospectus (2014-2021)
• Semiconductors and their preparation for engineering use,
• crystal structure,
• mobility, and electrical conductivity, measuring electrical
conductivity, measuring electrical parameters of semiconductors,
• energy bands in solids,
• homogeneous semiconductor in thermodynamic equilibrium,
amorphous semiconductors,
• the pn junction,
• semiconductors in optoelectronics,
• the photovoltaic effect,
• semiconductor devices, superconducting devices, power
semiconductor devices and devices of the future.
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Course Outline
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Solid State?
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Solid-state device, electronic device in which electricity
flows through solid semiconductor crystals (silicon, gallium
arsenide, germanium) rather than through vacuum tubes
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Semiconductors?
But, Gallium, Lead, Mercury, Titanium, Why Semiconductors?
Manganese are not good conductors
Metals Insulators Semiconductors
• Good conductors of • Poor conductors of • Intermediate properties
• heat and • heat and of metals &
• electricity semiconductors in terms
• electricity of conduction
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Some Giants in Solid-State Electronics
Schottky began the three-step publication of his boundary
layer theory (also known as the space-charge theory of the
barrier layer), which was to prove a groundbreaking
innovation in the field of semiconductor technology.
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They called it a transistor (from transfer and resistor)
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Some Giants in Solid-State Electronics
Gustav Hertz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics While still studying electrical engineering at Berlin Technical
jointly with James Franck in 1925. The two scientists were University, Ernst Ruska – together with his supervisor Max Knoll
honored for discovering the laws governing the collision – discovered that objects penetrated by electron beams could be
of an electron with an atom (Franck-Hertz experiment). magnified one or more times by means of "magnetized lenses." In
1931, the two physicists developed the prototype of a microscope
that used electrons rather than light. However, the first electron
microscope was less powerful than its optical counterparts.
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Some Giants in Solid-State Electronics [Link]
In 1951, the physicist Heinrich Welker was appointed
head of the Solid State Physics Department at Siemens-
Schuckertwerke’s general laboratory in Erlangen, Germany.
In the same year, he discovered the III-V compounds of
The story of invention revolves around the perseverance of an
elements from the third and fifth groups of the periodic
American Physicist Russel. S. Ohl who discovered the basic
table. This discovery led to the widespread application of
form of PN Junction while his research at Bell Laboratories.
galvanomagnetic and optoelectronic effects as well as to
Russel Ohl was known for the patent he registered on modern
completely new switching elements in microelectronics.
day solar cells by the name “Light Sensitive Devices”.
These elements included gallium arsenide, which is still a
key building block of high-frequency components and
semiconductor lasers for optoelectronic systems. 10
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Some Giants in Solid-State Electronics
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Herbert Kroemer
for developing semiconductor
heterostructures used in high-
Zhores I. Alferov speed- and opto-electronics.
Jack Kilby, the US inventor of the integrated circuit which formed the
basis of the computer chip, has died aged 81, after a battle with cancer. succeeded in employing principal
Experts rank his contribution to invention alongside those of Henry benefits of heterostructure applications
Ford and Thomas Edison. It spawned a multi-billion dollar industry in devices, i.e., lasers, LEDs, solar cells,
and earned him a Nobel Prize. During his career Mr Kilby earned more dynistors and transistors.
than 60 patents, won the National Medal of Science and was inducted
into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Semiconductor Materials
Types of semiconductors
Solid State Electronic Devices
Sixth Edition
Ben G. Streetman, Sanjay K. Banerjee Ternary, Quaternary
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Student must read the course textbook(s)
rather than relying on the lecture slides ONLY.
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