Subject Code: PH7L011 Subject Name:   Semi Conductor Physics L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): Nil
Electron and hole statistics in semiconductors, semiconductor band structure, doping in semiconductors, transport properties, semiconductor heterostructures, charge carrier recombination, diffusion of electrons and holes, equation of continuity, carrier injection, p-n junction, current-voltage characteristic, Physical model of p-n junction, junction capacitance and  width, breakdown phenomena, metal-semiconductor junction, rectification at metal-semiconductor junction, schottky-diffusion theory, photoconductivity, bipolar transistor (principle and characteristics),principle of operation of FET, photovoltaic effect.
Text Books/Reference Books:
  1. Sze S. M., Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Wiley Eastern Limited.
  2. Pankove Jacques I., Optical Process in Semiconductor,Dover Publications, Inc.
  3. Davies J. H., Physics of Low dimensional Semiconductor, Cambridge University Press.