This course is designed to provide graduate students in physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and materials science with an ability to understand the scientific and technological backgrounds of semiconductors and related devices. Topics include: electronic structure and optical properties of semiconducting materials, defects and impurities, electron transport, electron/optical devices and device structures.
Topical Prerequisites: Schrödinger equation and Hamiltonian, crystal structure and lattices, Boltzman and Fermi-Dirac distributions, Bloch theorem.