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Electronic Materials

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The course aims to: - Introduce the students to the basic principles of solid state electronic materials. - Build the students ability to formulate, analyze an engineering problem. - Promote the students’ skill in comparing different alternatives - Improve the students’ skills with respect to practical considerations and technology limitations.
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Requirements

PHM122

Description

  • English Description

    Crystals, Bonding, Basic elements of material science, electronic conduction in metals, electron in a periodic potential, energy bands and energy gaps in solids, Semiconductors, the Fermi level, electrons and holes, Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, n-type and p-type, Diffusion and Drift Current, Excess carriers in semiconductors, Optical generation and recombination, the continuity equation, non homogenous doping, PN-junction: I-V characteristics, Reverse saturation current depletion layer capacitance, Diffusion capacitance, Zener diodes
  • Arabic Description

    Crystals, Bonding, Basic elements of material science, electronic conduction in metals, electron in a periodic potential, energy bands and energy gaps in solids, Semiconductors, the Fermi level, electrons and holes, Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, n-type and p-type, Diffusion and Drift Current, Excess carriers in semiconductors, Optical generation and recombination, the continuity equation, non homogenous doping, PN-junction: I-V characteristics, Reverse saturation current depletion layer capacitance, Diffusion capacitance, Zener diodes
  • Department
    Electronics and Communications Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Major Assessment (35 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 5% , tr.Seminar 35% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 3, Tutorial Hours: 1, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
  • - Semiconductors Physics and Devices Basic principles - by Donald A. Neaman, 3rd edition, Mc Graw Hill
  • - S. O. Kasap, Principles of Electronic Materials and Devices, 3rd Edition, McGraw Hill 2006.
  • - S.M. Sze, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, 2nd Edition, Wiley-Interscience, 1981. - Semiconductors Physics and Devices Basic principles by Donald A. Neaman, 3rd edition, Mc Graw Hill - Semiconductors Physics and Devices Basic principles by Donald A. Neaman, 3rd edition, Mc Graw Hill.