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Learn the essential foundations of semiconductor physics through this comprehensive course taught by Mark Lundstrom at Purdue University, covering the fundamental principles needed to understand transistors, diodes, solar cells, light-emitting devices, and other semiconductor devices. Explore materials properties including energy bands, crystalline structures, Miller indices, common semiconductors, free carriers, and doping mechanisms. Master quantum mechanical concepts such as wave equations, quantum confinement, tunneling, reflection, electron waves in crystals, and density of states. Understand equilibrium carrier concentrations through detailed study of Fermi functions, Fermi-Dirac statistics, Fermi levels, doping density effects, and temperature dependencies. Investigate carrier transport mechanisms using the Landauer approach, drift and diffusion currents, drift-diffusion equations, and recombination-generation processes. Conclude with semiconductor equations covering mathematical formulations, energy band diagrams, quasi Fermi-levels, and minority carrier diffusion. Gain a physical and intuitive understanding of semiconductor physics from an electrical engineering perspective, with treatment that emphasizes practical applications over heavy mathematical complexity, making it accessible to technology users while providing a solid foundation for those pursuing deeper study in condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and materials science.
