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Physics of Semiconductor Devices


Code: F K02
Department: Department of Experimental Physics
Course director: Miklós Török 
Credits: 2
Semester: not fixed
Hours/week: 2+0
Prerequisities: Electronics, Solid State Physics
Type of assessment: K or B

Course description:
Band theory of solids, extended and localised states, equilibrium statistics. Transport of charge carriers: scattering, Boltzmann equation, charge transport in the forbidden band. Non-equilibrium processes: generation and recombination, diffusion and drift of charge carriers, the relation of mobility and diffusion, Maxwell's relaxation time. Semiconductor surfaces: electron emission from metals, metal-semiconducor contact, the Schottky diode. The p-n junction. Elements of the theory of insulated gate field effect transistors, MIS (or MOS) structure; the dynamic RAM, operation of the IG-FETs, properties of the insulating layers, charge transport in insulators: the EPROM, charge transfer devices: CCD. Monopolar field effect transistor structures: J-FET, MES-FET. The bipolar transistor. Integrated solid state circuits, types, steps of production, constitution of monolit circuits.

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