Physical Electronics

• YCPS Supplement Information

                   name: Physical Electronics
          course_number: EEngrg 320a
             department: Electrical Engineering
             instructor: Richard C Barker
              course_ID: 27320
    course_meeting_days: MWF
   course_meeting_times: 1.30-2.20
                   htba: lab W or TTh 2.30-
         class_location: BCT 408A
                    aka: ApPhys 320a
  

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• Course Description

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• Syllabus:

  EE 320a, E&AS 865a

  Physical Electronics

  Fall Term 1997

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  Richard C. Barker

  Becton Center 525

  Tel: 432-4308, FAX: 432-7769

  E-mail: Barker@yale.edu

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  1993 Yale College Catalog Data:

  EE 320a: Physical Electronics. 4 hrs. The physics, characteristics, and technology of semiconductor devices:p-n junctions in their many forms, bipolar and field-effect transistors and related devices, LEDs, lasers, and structures suitable for integrated circuits. The course leads to EE 321b and 325b. Seven laboratory sessions.

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  Textbooks:
  • Primary: B.G. Streetman, Solid State Electronic Devices, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall 1972;
  • Reference: R.S. Muller, T.I. Kamins, Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits; (this book is the primary text for EE321b, Solid State Devices and Microelectronics)

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  Goals:

  The course is designed to develop intuitive concepts and the ability to deal quantitatively with the principles of physical electronics. A limited range of solid-state electronic devices is used as the vehicle for developing these ideas and making them useful for analysis and design.The course leads into other courses in electronic circuits, instrumentation, computers, and integrated circuit design. The course features close interaction with the Instructor, and many special hand-outs that complement the lectures and supplement the reading.

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  Prerequisites by Topic:
  1. Physics at the normal level expected of sophomores
  2. Ordinary differential equations at an elementary level
  3. Some elementary electrical and electronic circuit concepts

  Catch-up notes have been prepared for students missing one or the other of several possible topics, eg, vectors, vector differential operators, elementary quantum mechanics, plane waves, electric fields, dielectrics, and capacitance.

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  Topics:
  1. Objectives and overview.
  2. Quantum mechanical description of electrons in free space and in a crystal lattice.
  3. Semiconductor crystals: structure, binding, electrons, holes.
  4. Carrier generation, recombination, doping, equilibrium, nonequilibrium states and continuity principles.
  5. The Fermi Dirac distribution and its use in calculating carrier concentrations, thermoelectric effects.
  6. Carrier drift, diffusion, impurity and phonon scattering.
  7. The minority carrier diffusion equation, PN junction properties.
  8. Avalanche, tunneling, punch-through leading to tunnel diodes, Zenner diodes, varactors, snap diodes, breakdown mechanisms.
  9. The PN junction diode and solar cell.
  10. The Bipolar Junction Transistor.
  11. The MOS Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET).
  12. Light emitting diodes, junction lasers.

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  Laboratory Projects:
  1. Semiconductor energy gap and the temperature dependence of conductivity.
  2. Carrier type and conductivity; Hall effect.
  3. Haynes Schockley experiment on minority carrier diffusion.
  4. P-N junction charactarization.
  5. Solar cells.
  6. Thermoelectric devices.
  7. Electronic properties of a variety of devices: tunnel, Zener, switching, varactor, Schottky diodes; PNP, NPN, photo, unijunction, field effect transistors; triac, SCR, NPN Darlington power control devices.

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