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This document provides an overview of the topics that will be covered in the course "Advanced Semiconductor Devices". The course covers fundamentals of semiconductors, p-n junctions and interfaces, majority carrier diodes, microwave diodes, optoelectronic devices, metal semiconductor field effect transistors, MOS transistors and charge coupled devices, and power electronics components like rectifiers, choppers, and inverters. The document lists 5 units that will be covered in the course, providing details of the key concepts and devices in each unit. It also lists 3 recommended textbooks for the course.

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Advanced Semiconductor Devices PDF

This document provides an overview of the topics that will be covered in the course "Advanced Semiconductor Devices". The course covers fundamentals of semiconductors, p-n junctions and interfaces, majority carrier diodes, microwave diodes, optoelectronic devices, metal semiconductor field effect transistors, MOS transistors and charge coupled devices, and power electronics components like rectifiers, choppers, and inverters. The document lists 5 units that will be covered in the course, providing details of the key concepts and devices in each unit. It also lists 3 recommended textbooks for the course.

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Advanced Semiconductor Devices

Unit-1: Review of Fundamentals of Semiconductors: Semiconductor Materials and their properties, Carrier Transport in Semiconductors, Excess Carriers in Semiconductor Unit -2: Junctions and Interfaces Description of p-n junction, Action, The Abrupt Junction, Example of an Abrupt Junction, The linearly graded Junction. The Ideal Diode Model, Real Diodes, Temperature Dependence of I-V Characteristics, High Level Injection Effects, Example of Diodes. Description of Breakdown Mechanism, Zener and Avalanche, Breakdown in p-n Junction Unit-3: Majority Carrier Diodes The Tunnel Diode, the Backward Diode, the Schottkey Barrier Diode, Ohmic Contacts Heterojunctions. Unit -4: Microwave Diodes The Varactor Diode, The p-i-n Diode, The IMPATT Diode, TRAPATT Diode, The BARITT Diode, Transferred Electron Devices Optoelectronic Devices: The Solar Cell, Photo detectors, Light Emitting Diodes, Semiconductor Lasers. (i)Phase controlled rectifiers-Principle of phase control, Full wave controlled converters, Single phase full wave converters and three phase full converters, Effect of source impedance, Dual converters (ii) Choppers- Principle of operation, control strategies, step up & step down Unit-5: Metal Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors: Basic Types of MESFETs, Models for I-V Characteristics of Short Channel MESFETs, High Frequency Performance, MESFETs Structures. MOS Transistors and Charge Coupled Devices Basic Structures and the Operating Principle, I-V Characteristics, ShortChannel Effects, MOSFET Structures, Charge Coupled Devices. Single phase Inverters, Three phase Inverters, Current source inverters, voltage source Inverters, PWM techniques-SPWM

TEXT/REFERENCE BOOKS: 1. M.S. Tyagi, Introduction To Semiconductor Materials And Devices, John WillyIndia Pvt. Ltd. 2. S. M. Sze, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, 2nd Edition, John Willy-India Pvt. Ltd. 3. B. G. Streetman and S. Banerjee, Solid state electronics devices, 5th Edition, PHI.

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