Syllabus
- Electrons at metal-vacuum interface
- Electron reflection/transmission at metal-vacuum interface
- Electrons inside a potential (quantum) well
- Electron tunneling through a potential barrier
- The Free Electron Model in Metals
- Density of states, Fermi-Dirac distribution and work function
- Thermionic emission
- Schottky effect
- Field emission
- Photoelectric effect
- Band Models of Solids
- Conduction band, valence band, band gap
- Electrical conduction of electrons in an energy band
- Energy band diagrams of metals, semiconductors and insulators
- Energy-momentum (E-k) curves
- Effective mass
- Holes
- Semiconductors
- Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors
- Dopants of semiconductors
- Electron/hole concentration in intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors
- Fermi level of intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors
- Conductivity of semiconductors
- Principles of Semiconductor Devices
- Energy band diagram of a p-n junction at equilibrium and under bias
- Built-in field, built-in potential, transition region width
- I-V characteristics at equilibrium and under bias
- Junction capacitance