Dr. M. M.

Abdel Aziz

CONTENTS

Chapter 1

The p –n Junction

1. The Contact Potential

2. Equilibrium Fermi Levels
3. Space Charge at a Junction Forward- and Reverse-Biased Junctions
4. Qualitative Description of Current Flow at a Junction
5. Effects of bias on the important features of the junction.:
6. Diode Current Equation
7. Quasi-Fermi levels
8. What happens ?

Chapter 2

The Reverse Biased p –n Junction

1. Introduction
2. Reverse-Bias Breakdown
3. Zener Breakdown
4. Avalanche Breakdown
5. An approximate analysis of avalanche multiplication
6. Rectifiers
7. Various Requirements For Good Rectifier Junctions.
8. The Breakdown Diode
9. Capacitance of p-n Junctions
10. The Varactor Diode

Chapter 3

The metal – Semiconductor Junction

1. Introduction
2. Schottky Barriers
3. Rectifying Contacts
4. Ohmic Contacts

Chapter 4

The Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT )

1. Fundamentals of BJT Operation

2. Amplification with BJTs
3. Charge Control Analysis
4. Measurement of τB and τt
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Chapter 5

The Field – Effect Transistor ( FET)

1. Introduction
2. Junction field-effect transistor (JFET)
3. Depletion- type MOSFET (D-MOSFET)
4. Enhancement - type MOSFET (E-MOSFET)
5. FET AC Model
6. The CMOS Logic Inverter
7. CMOS Structure

Chapter 6

The Photonic Devices

1. Excess carriers
2. The Origin of Radiation
3. Light- Emitting Materials
4. The Light Emitting Diode (LED)
5. The Double Heterojunction LED
6. Optical Detectors
7. The Junction Detectors
The p - n Diode
The Phototransistor
Solar Cells

Chapter 7

The laser

1. Emission and Absorption of Radiation

2. Einestein's Relations
3. Population Inversion
4. Attainment of Population Inversion
5. Optical Feedback
6. Laser Modes
7. Semiconductor Injection Laser
8. Threshold Current
9. Power Output
10. Single Heterojunction Laser
11. Double Heterojunction Laser

Problems