Semiconductor Device

* The Semiconductor device, electronic circuit is made up of a material that is neither a good conductor nor a good insulator.
* Semiconductor devices are nothing but electronic components that exploit the electronic properties of semiconductor materials, like as silicon, germanium, and gallium arsenide, as well as organic semiconductors.
Key Terms
o Semiconductor
o Diode
o Transistor
o Bipolar junction transistor
o Base
o Collector
o Emitter
o Integrated circuits
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Some of the topics Covered in the app are:
1.\tThe Haynes-Shockley Experiment
2.\tSemiconductor Materials
3.\tCrystal Lattice
4.\tCubic Lattices
5.\tPlanes and Directions
6.\tThe Diamond Lattice
7.\tBulk Crystal Growth
8.\tGrowth of Single Crystal Ingots
9.\tWafers
10.\tEpitaxial growth
11.\tVapor-phase epitaxy
12.\tMolecular beam epitaxy
13.\tCharge Carriers in Semiconductors
14.\tEffective Mass
15.\tIntrinsic Material
16.\tExtrinsic Material
17.\tElectrons and Holes in Quantum Wells
18.\tThe Fermi Level
19.\tCompensation and Space Charge Neutrality
20.\tDrift and Resistance
21.\tOptical absorption
22.\tPhotoluminescence
23.\tElectroluminescence
24.\tCarrier Lifetime and Photoconductivity
25.\tDirect Recombination of Electrons and Holes
26.\tIndirect Recombination; Trapping
27.\tSteady State Carrier Generation; Quasi-Fermi Levels
28.\tPhotoconductive Devices
29.\tDiffusion Processes
30.\tDiffusion and Drift of Carriers: Built-in Fields
31.\tDiffusion and Recombination; The Continuity Equation
32.\tSteady State Carrier Injection: Diffusion Length
33.\tGradients in the Quasi-Fermi Levels
34.\tTemperature Dependence of Carrier Concentrations
35.\tEffects of Temperature and Doping on Mobility
36.\tHigh-Field Effects
37.\tThe Hall Effect
38.\tFabrication of p-n Junctions: Thermal oxidation
39.\t Diffusion of P-N junction
40.\t Rapid Thermal Processing
41.\tIon Implantation
42.\tChemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)
43.\tPhotolithography
44.\tEtching
45.\tMetallization
46.\tEquilibrium Conditions
47.\tEquilibrium Fermi Levels
48.\tSpace Charge at a Junction
49.\tForward- and Reverse-Biased Junctions
50.\tCarrier Injection
51.\tReverse Bias
52.\tReverse-Bias Breakdown
53.\tZener Breakdown
54.\tAvalanche Breakdown
55.\tRectifiers
56.\tThe Breakdown Diode
57.\tTransient and A-C Conditions
58.\tReverse Recovery Transient
59.\tThe Ideal Diode Model
60.\tEffects of Contact Potential on Carrier Injection
61.\tSwitching Diodes
62.\tCapacitance of p-n junctions
63.\t Recombination and Generation in the Transition Region
64.\tOhmic Losses
65.\tGraded Junctions
66.\tMetal semiconductor junctions: schottky barriers
67.\tCurrent Transport Processes
68.\tThermionic-Emission Theory
69.\tDiffusion Theory
70.\tThermionic-Emission-Diffusion Theory
71.\tRectifying Contacts
72.\tTunneling Current
73.\tMinority-Carrier Injection
74.\tMIS Tunnel Diode
75.\tMeasurement of Barrier Height
76.\tActivation-Energy Measurement
77.\tPhotoelectric Measurement
78.\tOhmic Contacts
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