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Office Hours: Spring: 2-3 PM Monday & Wednesday Or by Appointment¡¡ |
SPRING 2006, 2007,2008 Ph
440/540, 441/541 PHYSICS OF SOLID STATE DEVICES (4,4) -- This
class is intended to provide the physical basis necessary for
understanding the operation, technology, and design of solid state
devices, rather than
their application. Topics will include: introduction to and
application of certain concepts of quantum physics to solids, effect of
periodicity in solids on electron energy states, electron statistics,
metals, insulators, semiconductors and superconductors, thermionic and field assisted electron emission,
electron scattering and mobility of charge carriers, intrinsic and
extrinsic semiconductors, quantitative treatment of p-n function,
diffusion and recombination of excess carriers, quantitative treatment
of electron injection, majority and minority components of the junction
current, breakdown, quantitative treatments of bipolar junction
transistor, field effect transistor and tunnel diodes, and physics of
metal-semiconductor and metal-insulator-semiconductor junctions and
devices.
Prerequisites: Ph 312 or Ph 318.
Textbooks:
Pierret ¨C Semiconductor Device Fundamentals
Brennan & Brown ¨C Theory of Modern Electronic
Semiconductor Devices ¡¡ |
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Fall: 4 - 5:15 PM Monday & Wednesday Or by Appointment¡¡ |
FALL Ph 378U/Sci
355U
SCIENCE THROUGH SCIENCE FICTION (4) --
Also listed as Sci 355;
course may be taken only once for credit. This
Writing Intensive Class (WIC) uses science fiction literature to
examine a wide variety of
topics in science. Students are expected to write an essay a week on
assigned topics such as Newtonian mechanics in outer space, weather on
an alien planet, and the inflationary theory of the Big Bang. These
essays will also need to discuss how these topics are treated in the
assigned books. Lectures will cover Newtonian mechanics, Special and
General Relativity, the Big Bang, Stellar Evolution, Nucelosynthesis,
terrestrial weather, and other topics. Class discussion often leads to
new topics being covered. By the end of the term, we expect that you
will have developed critical analysis skills for scientific
speculation, understand how science enhances projections of future
societies and situations (Risk Analysis), and improved skills in
organizing and writing essays on any topic. Prerequisites Textbook - None ¡¡ |
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