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condensed matter physics  

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1. Basic phenomena and physical properties of semiconductor materials. Solid state band model. Doped semiconductors. 2. Description of the semiconductor in the state of thermodynamic equilibrium, concentration of electric charge carriers, Boltzmann relationship, balance of carrier concentration, electric neutrality equation. 3. Transport of carriers in a semiconductor. Charge carriers in the electric field. Conductivity. 4. Hall effect. 5. Non-equilibrium phenomena in a semiconductor. Generation, recombination and trapping processes. 6. Diffusion. 7. Principle of current flow. Equations of transport. 8. p-n connector. 9. Diodes. Photodiodes. Solar cells. Resistor. Transistor. Thermistor. 10. Metal-semiconductor contacts. Surface conditions. MIS and MOS structures. 11. Experimental methods of semiconductor characterization.

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condensed matter physics
English

UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE

Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation

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