Semiconductor Device & Circuit

Semiconductor Devices & Circuits is a free engineering handbook covering important course topics, notes, diagrams, equations, formulas and study materials. Use this digital book and reference guide for Diploma, BE, BTech, BSc and related degree courses.

Explore 160 topics across 5 chapters, including semiconductor materials, crystal growth, charge carriers, drift and diffusion, semiconductor fabrication, p-n junctions, diodes and metal-semiconductor contacts. Ideal for exam revision, viva, interviews, assignments and projects.

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78 LISTED TOPICS FROM 160

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS & CRYSTALS

1. Haynes-Shockley Experiment

2. Semiconductor Materials

3. Crystal Lattice

4. Cubic Lattices

5. Crystal Planes and Directions

6. Diamond Lattice

7. Bulk Crystal Growth

8. Single-Crystal Ingot Growth

9. Semiconductor Wafers

10. Epitaxial Growth

11. Vapor-Phase Epitaxy

12. Molecular Beam Epitaxy

CHARGE CARRIERS & OPTICAL PROCESSES

13. Charge Carriers in Semiconductors

14. Effective Mass

15. Intrinsic Semiconductors

16. Extrinsic Semiconductors

17. Electrons and Holes in Quantum Wells

18. Fermi Level

19. Compensation and Space-Charge Neutrality

20. Carrier Drift and Resistance

21. Optical Absorption

22. Photoluminescence

23. Electroluminescence

24. Carrier Lifetime and Photoconductivity

25. Direct Electron-Hole Recombination

26. Indirect Recombination and Trapping

27. Steady-State Carrier Generation and Quasi-Fermi Levels

28. Photoconductive Devices

TRANSPORT, DIFFUSION & MOBILITY

29. Diffusion Processes

30. Carrier Diffusion, Drift and Built-In Fields

31. Diffusion, Recombination and Continuity Equation

32. Steady-State Injection and Diffusion Length

33. Quasi-Fermi-Level Gradients

34. Temperature Dependence of Carrier Concentration

35. Temperature and Doping Effects on Mobility

36. High-Field Effects

37. Hall Effect

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FABRICATION

38. P-N Junction Fabrication: Thermal Oxidation

39. P-N Junction Diffusion

40. Rapid Thermal Processing

41. Ion Implantation

42. Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)

43. Photolithography

44. Etching

45. Metallization

P-N JUNCTIONS & DIODES

46. Equilibrium Conditions

47. Equilibrium Fermi Levels

48. Junction Space Charge

49. Forward- and Reverse-Biased Junctions

50. Carrier Injection

51. Reverse Bias

52. Reverse-Bias Breakdown

53. Zener Breakdown

54. Avalanche Breakdown

55. Rectifiers

56. Breakdown Diodes

57. Transient and AC Conditions

58. Reverse-Recovery Transient

59. Ideal Diode Model

60. Contact Potential Effects on Carrier Injection

61. Switching Diodes

62. P-N Junction Capacitance

63. Transition-Region Recombination and Generation

64. Ohmic Losses

65. Graded Junctions

METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR CONTACTS

66. Metal-Semiconductor Junctions: Schottky Barriers

67. Current Transport Processes

68. Thermionic-Emission Theory

69. Diffusion Theory

70. Thermionic-Emission-Diffusion Theory

71. Rectifying Contacts

72. Tunneling Current

73. Minority-Carrier Injection

74. MIS Tunnel Diodes

75. Barrier-Height Measurement

76. Activation-Energy Measurement

77. Photoelectric Measurement

78. Ohmic Contacts

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