課程介紹
課程大綱
OS7185 光電半導體物理專論 更新日期: 2016-01-28
課程目標
Bilingual teaching will be provided, if necessary.
修習條件
主要教本
There is NO required textbook for this course. Some good references are listed below:
1. D. A. Neamen, Semiconductor Physics and Devices (McGraw-Hill, 2003)
2. J. P. McKelvey, Solid State and Semiconductor Physics (Harper & Row, 1966)
3. S.-L. Chuang, Physics of Optoelectronic Devices (John Wiley & Sons, 1995)
4. A. Yariv, Quantum Electronics (Wiley, 1989)
5. J. Singh, Physics of Semiconductors and Their Heterostructures (McGraw-Hill, 1993).
6. B. E. A. Saleh and M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley, 2007)
7. P. Bhattacharya, Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices, 2nd ed. (Prentice-Hall, 1996).
8. M. Shur, Physics of Semiconductor Devices (Prentice Hall, 1990).
8. P. Yu and M. Cardona, Fundamentals of Semiconductors, Physics and Materials Properties (Springer, 1996).
11. H. C. Casey, Jr. and M. B. Panish, Heterostructrue Lasers, Part A: Fundamental Principles, Chapter 3, Academic, Orlando, FL, 1978.
13. Some other books that will be mentioned in the lecture notes.
內容大綱
Derivation of Fermi-Dirac Distribution, Boundary Conditions, Density of k-States, Density of States Function
2. Semiconductor in Equilibrium
Dopant Atoms and Energy Levels, Degenerate and Nondegenerate Semiconductors, Statistics of Donors and Acceptors, Charge Neutrality, Position of Fermi Energy Level
3. Nonequilibrium Excess Carriers in Semiconductors
Carrier generation and Recombination, Characteristics of Excess Carriers, Ambipolar Transport, Quasi-Fermi Energy Levels, Excess-Carrier Lifetime, Surface Effects
4. Perturbation Theory
Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory, Time-Independent Perturbation Theory, Harmonic Perturbation and Fermi's Golden Rule
5. Optical Processes in Semiconductors
Optical Transitions Using Fermi’s Golden Rule, Interband Absorption in Bulk Semiconductor, Spontaneous and Stimulated Emissions, Interband Absorption and Gain in Quantum-Well Structure, Intersubband Absorption
