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COURSE INFORMATION FOR CURRENT SEMESTER/TERM

WEEK LECTURE/ TUTORIAL /ASSIGNMENT TOPIC REFERENCES/ TEACHING MA-
TERIALS/ EQUIPMENT

1 Semiconductor materials, types of solids Main references

2 Crystal structures, space lattice Main references

3 Atomic bonding, imperfection in solids, Main references

4 Principle of Quantum Mechanics Main references

5 Energy quantization and probability concepts , energy Main references
band theory, density of states function

6 Statistical mechanics Main references

7 Charge carriers in semiconductors, dopant atoms and energy Main references
levels

8 Carrier distribution in the extrinsic semiconductors, statis- Main references
tics of donors and acceptors

9 Effects of Doping and temperature on carrier concentra- Main references
tion and position of Fermi energy level

10 Carrier drift and diffusion Main references

11 Graded impurity distribution Main references

12 Carrier generation and recombination Main references

13 Basic structure of PN junction, zero applied bias, reverse Main references
applied bias

14 Rectifying junction and forward applied bias Main references

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