Course Outline
- Crystal structure, reciprocal lattice, X-ray diffraction
- Lattice vibrations, phonons, lattice heat capacity, quantization
of phonons
- Free-electron Fermi gas, electronic heat capacity
- Band structure, band-gaps, Kronig-Penney model, tight-binding
model
- Band modifications in heterostructures, quantum wells,
superlattices
- Crystal momentum, effective mass
- Fermi-level, occupation statistics, donor and acceptor
electronic structure
- Transport theory, Boltzmann equation, relaxation-time
approximation
- Scattering mechanisms, low-field mobility
- High-field transport, Monte-Carlo simulation, balance-equation
approach
- Transport in heterostructures, modulation doping, tunneling
- Optical properties, direct absorption, radiative recombination,
van-Roosbroeck-Shockley relation
- Non-radiative recombination, Shockley-Read-Hall
- Surface states, surface reconstruction, surface recombination,
Schottky barriers