EECS176, Spring 2017 Senior Elective

4 units, code 18260 &18261

Fundamentals of Solid State Electronics and Materials
Catalog Data Physical properties of semiconductors and the roles materials play in
device operation. Topics include: crystal structure, phonon vibrations,
energy band, transport phenomenon, optical properties and quantum
confinement effect essential to the understanding of electronic,
optoelectronic and nanodevices. Prerequisite: EECS 170A (Design units:
1)
Textbook Electronic Properties of Engineering Materials, James D. Livingston,
1999, Wiley MIT Series in Materials Science and Engineering.
Reference Books Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices, Betty L. Anderson and
Richard L. Anderson, McGraw Hill, 2005.
Physics of Semiconductor Devices, S. M. Sze, John Wiley & Sons,
NewYork, 2nd edition, 1981.
Optoelectronics and Photonics, S.O. Kasap, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle
River, NJ, 2000.
Basic Quantum Mechanics, Robert L. White.
Classical Electrodynamics, John David Jackson, John Wieley & Sons.
Course Outline 1. Electric conductivity and conductors
2. Electromagnetic waves in slightly conductive materials
3. Polarization and dielectric properties of insulators
4. Optical properties of insulators
5. Magnetization and magnetic materials
6. Elasticity of materials and acoustic waves
7. Quantum mechanics: waves or particles?
8. Schrodinger equation and atomic orbitals
9. Atomic bonding and bonds
10. From bonds to bands
11. Free electron waves in metals
12. Energy bands, band gaps, and holes as charge carrier
13. Metals and electrical insulators
14. Semiconductors
15. Photodectors, solar cells, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and transistors.
Class Hours M W F: 2:00 - 2:50 pm
Classroom MSTB120 (Building 415, Multipurpose Science & Technology Bldg.)
Discussion Session A1: Friday, 1 - 1:50 pm, MSTB120
Instructor Chin C. Lee
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2226 Engineering Gateway Building
949-824-7462, cclee@uci.edu
Office Hours M: 10 am - 12 noon, W: 11 am - 1 pm
Teaching Assistant Shao-Wei Fu, shoaweif@uci.edu
TA office hours T: 12 noon 2 pm, Th: 10 am - 12 noon.
TA office EH 3404 (Engineering Hall)
Grading Homeworks 15%
Components First midterm exam. (April 26, Wednesday) 25%
Second midterm exam. (May 17, Wednesday) 25%
Final exam. (10:30am - 12:30pm, June 14, Wed.) 35%
Format of examinations
a. Little content overlap between examinations. Contents will be announced
later.
b. All examinations are open any books (paper version only), notes, and HW
solutions.
c. Laptops, PCs, ipads, cell phones, solution manuals are all prohibited.
b. You need a regular scientific calculator, a few HB pencils, and an eraser.
Homeworks (due dates will be announced later)
HW1: 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, and 1.9,
HW2: 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, and 2.11,
HW3: 3.3, 3.11, and 3.13,
HW4: Problem A (below), 4.2, 4.10, and 4.25,
Problem A:
Derive the equation of the electric field produced by a single dipole, p,
located at the origin of the coordinates and pointing upward along z-axis.
The positive point-charge, q, is located at half-delta above the origin and the
negative point-charge, q, is at half-delta below the origin. Hint: find the
electrical field equation for the positive point-charge and that for the
negative point-charge, respectively, and sum them together. Then allow
delta to approach zero while keeping p = qxdelta finite. It may be easier to
use spherical polar coordinates. Your electrical field solution should be
linearly proportional to the dipole p.
HW5: 5.5, 5.6, 7.3, 7.5 and problems B & C (below),
B) Find the meaning of Mohrs hardness scale 1 to 10, and for each scale
find a representative material.
C) (Textbook sections 7.3 and 7.4), At acoustic wavelength = 2a, find the
ratios un/u n-1 and un /un+1. From the results, describe the position of the (n-
1)th, nth, and (n+1)th atoms, respectively.
HW6: 8.2, 8.8, 8.14, & 8.17,
HW7: 9.1, 9.7, & 9.14,
HW8: 10.3, 10.6, 10.8, & 10.9,
HW9: 11.9, 12.2, 12.8, & 12.11,
HW10: 13.1 & 13.4.
Relation between overall scores and letter grades:
90-100: A+
80-89.9: A
78-79.9: A-
76-77.9: B+
70-75.9: B
68-69.9: B-
66-67.9: C+
60-65.9: C
58-59.9: C-
56-57.9: D+
50-55.9: D
0 - 49.9: F