Overview of the semiconductor materials properties.

18 Setembro 2019, 13:30 • José Figueiredo

Intrinsic semiconductors. Band structure. Direct and indirect gap semiconductors. Absorption and emission of radiation. Examples: silicon and gallium arsenide. Examples of semiconductor devices - pn diode, laser diode - structure and basic principle of operation.

(Biblio: chapters 3-5 of Electronic, Magnetic, and Optical Materials, Second Edition, Pradeep Fulay and Jung-Kun Lee, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group 2017.)