ELEG340 SOLID STATE ELECTRONICS - University of Delaware - FALL 2006
Class: Tues. and Thurs. 2P-3:15P 221 Alison HallInstructor: Prof. Ian Appelbaum
Office Hours: come see me in my office - 217C Evans
Phone: x3295
email: appelbaum@ee.udel.edu
TA: Yuhao Wu (wyh@udel.edu) and Zhao Lai (laizhao@udel.edu)
TA Office hour: 3PM-4PM Mon., 107 DuPont, or by request
"What I most deplore is the use of solid-state electronics by rock and roll musicians to raise the level of sound to where it is both painful and injurious. Sometimes one wonders whether the will to survive will ever really triumph over the human propensity for self-destruction." -Walter Brattain, transistor inventor and Nobel Prize winner
8/29 Pre-History: Vacuum Electronics
8/31 Crystal Lattices [original]
9/5 Quantum Mechanics I [original] (may need LiveWeb to view)
9/7 Quantum Mechanics II [original]
9/12 Band Structure and Charge Carriers [original]
9/14 Fermi Energy and Semiconductor Type [original]
9/19 Current and Mobility [original]
9/21 Excess Carriers and Rate Equations [original]
9/26 Drift-Diffusion [original]
10/03 Haynes-Shockley Experiment [original]
EXAM 1 Oct 5
EXAM 1 REVIEW Oct 10
10/12 p-n junction: Band Diagram at Equilibrium I [original]
10/17 p-n junction: Band Diagram at Equilibrium II[original]
10/19 External bias and Diode Equation[original]
10/24 Reverse bias effects and switching transients[original]
10/26 Depletion capacitance and Schottky diodes[original]
10/31 Ohmic contacts, heterojunction band diagrams, and some optoelectronics[original]
EXAM 2 Nov 9
EXAM 2 REVIEW Nov 14
11/16 BJT: Terminal current calculation[original]
11/21 BJT: Cutoff, Saturation, and Switching[original]
11/28 JFET: Channel gating and Pinchoff[original]
12/05 Semester Review[original]
Britney's guide to semiconductor physics
Cornell Semiconductor Simulation Project
Semiconductor electronics history
Vacuum electronics (Klystron) for high-power RADAR