ECE 656: Electronic Transport in Semiconductors
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Text/Syllabus
Course Texts:
- Near-equilibrium Transport: Fundamentals and Applications (NET) Mark Lundstrom, World Scientific (2012).
- Fundamentals of Carrier Transport, 2nd Edition (FCT) Mark Lundstrom, Cambridge University Press (2000) ISBN-13: 9780521637244 (paperback)
- For a review of basic semiconductor physics and devices, see
How to take this course
Week 1: Introduction
Reading Assignment
- FCT 1.1-1.4.1, 1.5 / NET 1.1-1.7
Homework
- Week 1 Homework Assignment
Lectures
- Lecture 2: Bandstructure Review
- Lecture 2a: Heterostructures
- Lecture 3: Sums in k-Space/Integrals in Energy Space
References and Supplemental Materials
Week 2: DOS and Intro to Scattering
Reading Assignment
- FCT 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1, 2.2 / NET 6.2
Homework
- Week 2 Homework Assignment
Lectures
- Lecture 4 Density of States
- Lecture 5: Scattering and Fermi's Golden Rule
- Lecture 5b: Scattering and Transmission
References and Supplemental Materials
- For an alternative derivation of FGR, see J.H. Davies, The Physics of Low-Dimensional Systems, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998. Chapter 8, Secs. 8.1 and 8.3.
- For more on overlap integrals, see: B.K. Ridley, Quantum Processes in Semiconductors, 4th Ed., pp. 82-86, Cambridge, 1997. B.K. Ridley, Electrons and Phonons in Semiconductor Multilayers, pp. 60-63, Cambridge, 1997. D.K. Ferry, Semiconductors, pp. 214, 46
Week 3: Ionized Impurity Scattering
Reading Assignment
- FCT 2.4
Homework
Lectures
- Lecture 6: Ionized Impurity Scattering I
- Lecture 7: Ionized Impurity Scattering II
Exam
References and Supplemental Materials
- Supplementary References
- For a discussion of modulation doping, screening in 2D, and remote impurity scattering in 2D, see: J.H. Davies, The Physics of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors, Chapter 8, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998.
Week 4: Phonon Scattering
Reading Assignment
- FCT 2.3, 2.5-2.9
Homework
- Weeks 3 and 4 Homework
Lectures
- Lecture 8: Phonon Scattering I
- Lecture 9: Phonon Scattering II
References and Supplemental Materials
- Supplementary References
Week 5: Scattering Wrap Up
Reading Assignment
- FCT 2.11, 2.14
Homework
- Week 5 Homework
Lectures
- Lecture 10: Phonon Scattering III
- Lecture 11: Scattering in 1D, 2D and 3D
- Lecture 12: Scattering of Bloch Electrons
References and Supplemental Materials
Week 6: Intro to Landauer Approach
Reading Assignment
- NET 2.1-2.4
Homework
- Week 6 Homework
Lectures
- Lecture 13: General Model for Transport
- Lecture 14: Modes and Transmission
Exam
References and Supplemental Materials
Week 7: Near-Equilibrium Electronic Transport
Reading Assignment
- NET 2.5-2.7, 3.1-3,5
Homework
- Week 7 Homework
Lectures
- Lecture 15: Near-Equilibrium Transport in the Bulk
- Lecture 16: Resistance - Ballistic to Diffusive
- Lecture 17: More about Resistance
Week 8: Near-Equilibrium Thermoelectric Transport
Reading Assignment
- NET 4.1-4.7, 5.1-5.6
Homework
- Week 8 Homework
Lectures
- Lecture 18: Thermoelectric Effects - Charge Flow
- Lecture 19: Thermoelectric Effects - (Electronic) Heat Flow
- Lecture 20: Coupled Current Equations and Thermoelectric Devices
References and Supplemental Materials
Week 9: Transmission and Phonon Transport
Reading Assignment
- NET 6.1, 6.3—6.6, 9.1-9.8
Homework
- Week 9 Homework
Lectures
- Lecture 21: Scattering and Transmission
- Lecture 22: Phonon Transport
Exam
References and Supplemental Materials
Week 10: Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE)
Reading Assignment
- FCT 1.6 / NET 7.1-7.7
Homework
- Week 10 Homework
Lectures
- Lecture 23: The Boltzmann Transport Equation
- Lecture 24: The BTE - Transport Coefficients
- Lecture 25: The BTE - with B-Fields
References and Supplemental Materials
- References and Supplementary Information
Week 11: The BTE II
Reading Assignment
- FCT 3.3, 3.4.1, 3.5
Homework
- Week 11 Homework
Lectures
- Lecture 26: Scattering I - Collision Integral
- Lecture 27: Scattering II - Relaxation Time Approximation
- Lecture 28B: BTE and Landauer
References and Supplemental Materials
- References and Supplementary Information
Week 12: Measurements and Characterization
Reading Assignment
- NET 8.1-8.7
Homework
- Week 12 Homework
Lectures
- Lecture 29: Near-Equilibrium Measurements I
- Lecture 30: Near-Equilibrium Measurements II
Exam
References and Supplemental Materials
Week 13: Balance Equation Approach
Reading Assignment
- FCT 5.1-5.8
Homework
- Week 13 Homework
Lectures
- Lecture 32: Balance Equation Approach II
- Lecture 33: Balance Equation Approach III
Exam
- New asset group
References and Supplemental Materials
- References and Supplementary Information
Week 14: Monte Carlo and Quantum Transport
Reading Assignment
- FCT 6.1-6.9
Lectures
- Lecture 34: Monte Carlo Simulation I
- Lecture 35: Monte Carlo Simulation II
- Lecture 36: Introduction to Quantum Transport in Devices
Exam
Week 15: High Field and Non-Local Transport
Reading Assignment
- FCT 7.1-7.7, 8.6,8.7
Homework
- Weeks 15-16 Homework
Lectures
- Lecture 37: High-field Transport
- Lecture 38: Non-Local Transport
- Lecture 38b: Ensemble Effects in Non-Local Transport
References and Supplemental Materials
Week 16: Ballistic Transport in Devices
Reading Assignment
- FCT 8.1-8.5
Homework
- Week 15-16 Homework
Lectures
- Lecture 39: Ballistic Transport in Devices I
- Lecture 40: From Lilienfeld to Landauer: Understanding the nanoscale transistor
References and Supplemental Materials
- References and Supplementary Information
Finals Week
Exam
- Exam 6/Final Exam