Semiconductor Fundamentals (Purdue University)

This course provides the basic knowledge required for the operation of semiconductor devices: such as transistors, diodes, solar cells, light-emitting devices, etc. This tutorial is mainly intended for students majoring in electrical engineering who are interested in the application of semiconductor devices in circuits and systems. Analysis is physical and intuitive, not mathematical.

• Chapter 1：Commercial (4 minutes and 46 seconds)

• Chapter 2：How to Take this Course (9 minutes and 54 seconds)

• Chapter 3：Materials Properties - Energy Levels to Energy Bands (21 minutes and 23 seconds)

• Chapter 4：Materials Properties - Crystalline, Polycrystalline.... (14 minutes and 16 seconds)

• Chapter 5： Materials Properties - Miller Indices (13 minutes and 31 seconds)

• Chapter 6：Materials Properties - Common Semiconductors (10 minutes and 13 seconds)

• Chapter 7：Materials Properties - Free Carriers in Semiconductor (13 minutes and 13 seconds)

• Chapter 8：Materials Properties - Doping (22 minutes and 50 seconds)

• Chapter 9：Materials Properties - Recap (15 minutes and 30 seconds)

• Chapter 10：Quantum Mechanics - The Wave Equation (28 minutes and 13 seconds)

• Chapter 11：Quantum Mechanics - Quantum Confinement (20 minutes and 6 seconds)

• Chapter 12： Quantum Mechanics - Tunneling and Reflection (17 minutes and 44 seconds)

• Chapter 13：Quantum Mechanics - Electron Waves in Crystal (20 minutes and 53 seconds)

• Chapter 14：Quantum Mechanics - Density of States (24 minutes and 18 seconds)

• Chapter 15：Quantum Mechanics - Recap (13 minutes and 0 seconds)

• Chapter 16：Equilibrium Carrier Concentration - Fermi Function (13 minutes and 58 seconds)

• Chapter 17：Equilibrium Carrier Concentration - Fermi-Dirac... (17 minutes and 30 seconds)

• Chapter 18：Equilibrium Carrier Concentration - Fermi Level (15 minutes and 45 seconds)

• Chapter 19：Equilibrium Carrier Concentration - Doping Density (9 minutes and 53 seconds)

• Chapter 20：Equilibrium Carrier Concentration - Temperature (15 minutes and 11 seconds)

• Chapter 21：Equilibrium Carrier Concentration - Recap (14 minutes and 19 seconds)

• Chapter 22：Recombination & Generation - Landauer Approach (20 minutes and 24 seconds)

• Chapter 23：Recombination and Generation - Nanoscale to Macroscale (22 minutes and 33 seconds)

• Chapter 24：Recombination and Generation - Drift-Diffusion Equation (26 minutes and 15 seconds)

• Chapter 25：Recombination and Generation - Carrier Recombination (25 minutes and 22 seconds)

• Chapter 26：Recombination and Generation - Carrier Generation (18 minutes and 8 seconds)

• Chapter 27：Recombination and Generation - Recap (19 minutes and 14 seconds)

• Chapter 28：Semiconductor Equations - Mathematical Formulation (23 minutes and 13 seconds)

• Chapter 29：Semiconductor Equations - Energy Band Diagrams (23 minutes and 16 seconds)

• Chapter 30：Semiconductor Equations - Quasi Fermi-Levels (15 minutes and 54 seconds)

• Chapter 31：Semiconductor Equations - Minority Carrier Diffusion (35 minutes and 30 seconds)

• Chapter 32：Semiconductor Equations - Recap (10 minutes and 21 seconds)