1. Free Electron Model (Week 1)
a. Drude model
b. Electrons and Quantum Mechanics
c. The Density of State
2. Crystal Structure: Periodicity (Week 2)
a. Basic lattice type
b. The reciprocal lattice
c. Superlattices and Interfaces
3. Electrons in Periodic Structures (Week 3)
a. Bloch’s theorem
b. Crystal momentum
c. Electron in weak periodic potential
d. Hole in semiconductors
4. Semiconductor Band Structures (Week 4,5)
a. Tight binding
b. Orthogonalized plan wave
c. Pseudopotential
d. Semiconductor band structures
e. Density of states in semiconductors
5. Photonic Semiconductors: Compound Semiconductors (Week 6,7)
a. GaAs
b. SiGe
c. GaN
6. Heterostructures and Quantum Wells (Week 8, Mid term)
a. Band structure modified by Heterojunctions
b. Quantum wells
c. Band structure of superlattice
7. Doping of Semiconductors (Week 10)
a. Intrinsic carriers
b. Effective mass
c. Extrinsic carriers
d. Heavily doped semiconductors
8. Electron Transportation in Heterostructures (Week 11, 12)
a. Boltzmann Transport equation
b. Mobility measurement
c. Hall mobility
d. Mobility in quantum wells
e. Effect of strain on electron mobility
f. Avalanche processes
9. Interactions of Photons with Semiconductors (Week 13, 14)
a. Maxwell equations
b. Optical mode in ionic crystal
c. Kramers-Kronig relation
d. Electrons in an EM field
e. Selection rules for photon transition
f. Interband and intraband transition
g. Semiconductor laser
10. Optical Properties of Semiconductors (Week 15, 16)
a. Excitonic states
b. Optical properties with excitonic effect
c. Excitonic states in quantum wells
d. Radiative recombination
11. Wide Bandgap Semiconductors (Week 17)