Course Identification

Electronic materials
20182041

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Prof. David Cahen
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Course Schedule and Location

2018
First Semester
Tuesday, 14:15 - 16:00, Perlman, Rm 404
07/11/2017

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Chemical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; 2.00 points

Comments

For 2nd year students or more advanced ones
MINIMUM number of students : 6

Participation is limited to pre-registered students that commit to take the course; there is no option for ?free listeners?. The course will take place only if the minimal number of students have pre-registered.

Students that want to get more information to decide if they will take the course, can do so before the start of the academic year?s courses by sending their questions to me via email, and/ore by way of a meeting with me in my office Perlman 620 on October 26 between 15 and 17 p.m. They can then inform the FGS later that day/during the week-end.

Prerequisites

Course is hands (~ heads)-on and requires significant degree of self study, that will be guided.
To be able to follow it some background is required in

  • Solid state
  • Quantum mechanics (principles)
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Electricity & Magnetism

  • Some idea of what should be the background and which, if needed can be regained during the first 2 weeks, can be gotten from the following topics:

    Periodic solids; symmetry; reciprocal lattice; Brillouin zone;

    Order and periodicity in matter;

    Optical absorption, reflectance, in molecular and non-molecular periodic solids

    Insulator/dielectrics, semiconductor, metal

    Electrical conductivity/resistivity, capacitance, impedance

    Maxwell equations

    Schroedinger equation;  Particle in the box

    Boltzmann statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics;  Fermi level

    Photon, phonon, spin

    (Electro)chemical potential;  Electrical potential

    Bandgap; Valence band, Conduction band

Restrictions

12

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Required in at least 80% of the lectures

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

20%
10%
10%
30%
30%
other: participations in discussions

Evaluation Type

Seminar

Scheduled date 1

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Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

3

Syllabus

Materials for:

  • Rectifiers
  • Switches
  • Energy converters
  • Memories
  • Displays  -  transparent conductors


Semiconductor Devices:

  • Contacts
  • Diodes
  • LEDs
  • Transistors
  • Solar Cells

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Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate familiarity with the scientific literature related to energy-converting electronic devices and materials.

Reading List

To be announced. 

Hummel

Electronic Materials is a good start, or for chemists, one of the books of PA Cox,

Those with appropriate, but rusty background should be prepared to invest time in first few weeks

Website

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