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EECS Spring 1996 Catalogue Supplement

6.972 Physics of Semiconductor Devices (H)

W 1 and F 1-3, 24-110
Prof. Dimitri Antoniadis, 39-415, x4693
3-0-9
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
The physical basis of semiconductor device operation. Semiconductors in equilibrium, electrochemical potential, generation recombination mechanisms, Boltzmann transport equation, ambipolar transport, p-n homojunctions, Schottky diodes, MOS capacitors, Gummel approach to bipolar devices (diodes and transistors), Zener and avalanche breakdown, high level injection, MOSFETs.
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