Technologies de l’Information pour la Santé

15H45

The lecture introduces the fundamental concepts in semiconductor physics and describes the operation of basic semiconductor devices.

• Introduction : semiconductors and information technology
• Semiconductor technology (a short overview).
• Semiconductor materials: cristalline structure, energy bands, density of electronic states
• Intrinsic semiconductors
• Extrinsic semiconductors
• Fermi-Dirac probability distribution
• Charge transport
• PN junction : concept and applications.

Knowing the physical mechanisms which underly the operation of most semiconductor devices (transistors, light-emitting diodes, LASER, solar cells, sensors,…)

Bibliography « Semiconductor Devices : Physics and Technology», S.M. Sze, 2nd Edition, WILEY (2002) « Semiconductor Physics and Devices : Basic principles », D.A. Neamen, 3dEdition, McGraw Hill (2003)

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