EE-3 – Micro & Nanoelectronics, Course Content :vbxcbcfngfhjtfjvxzvxzvcz

MEMS, NEMS, Semiconductor Solid state devices – Crystals and Electronic grade materials; Formation of energy bands in solids; Concept of hole, Density of states

Devices and Fermi level; Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors; Equilibrium Carrier concentration; Direct and indirect semiconductors;

Recombination and Generation of carriers, Carrier transport; Drift and Diffusion; Equations of state; Continuity and Poisson

equation; pn junction; energy band diagram, derivation of dc and ac characteristics; Bipolar junction transistors; physics and

characteristics MOS capacitor; MOSFET- physics, characteristics and modeling; Other devices: LEDs, Solar cells, metal-

semiconductor junctions, solid state memories

Books :fghddfghfghxcvxzvzxv

[1] Robert Pierret, Semiconductor Device Fundamentals, Pearson Education, 2006

[2] B. G. Streetman and S. K. Banerjee, Solid State Electronic Devices, Prentice Hall India, 2014

[3] M. S. Tyagi, Introduction to Semiconductor Materials and Devices, John Wiley, 2004vzvxcvzxcvzxcv

[4] Robert Pierret, Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals, Pearson, 2003

[5] C.T. Sah, Fundamentals of Solid State Electronics, World Scientific Publishing, 1991

[6] Amitava DasGupta and Nandita DasGupta, Semiconductor Devices: Modelling And Technology, Prentice Hall India, 2004

[7] S. Karmalkar, Solid state devices, NPTEL video lectures available on youtube; transcripts available here

Solving all example problems and exercises from the above reference books is *strongly* recommended as preparation for the entrance

exam. Sample questions from the written exams in the previous years on Solid State Devices area can be found here. Please note that the

written test will contain a part on basic engineering mathematics.