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The aim of this module is to provide a comprehensive overview of semiconductor physics and its application to a variety of semiconductor devices.
Module Content
Revision of semiconductor physics: intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, continuity equations, electron transport, Haynes-Shockley experiment.
Integrated circuits: processes of IC production, device fabrication, large scale integration, types of ICs, manufacturing, technology families, future challenges.
Junctions: p-n junction, forward and reverse bias, metal-semiconductor junction, insulator-semiconductor junction, the MOS capacitor, bipolar junction transistors and field effect transistors.
Lasers: stimulated emission, population inversion, laser cavity, semiconductor lasers, quantum cascade lasers.
Opto-electronics: physics and operation of LEDs, solar cells, photodiodes, diode lasers, OLEDs, fibre optics, semiconductor optics and applications.
Imaging devices: CCDs and CMOS devices, CCD readout, image formats and image processing.
Superconductivity: Meissner effect, London equations, flux quantization, Ginzburg-Landau equations, Josephson junction, SQUID, introduction to BCS theory, high-temperature superconductors.
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