Course detail
Solid State Physics
FEKT-MFPFAcad. year: 2012/2013
Structure of solids. Crystal lattice and their properties. Electrons in solids, band diagrams. Electric charge and energy transport. Surface and interface of solids. Fundamental microelectronic structures and their characteristics. Electromangetic waves in crystals. Crystal optics in external fields. Light emission in semiconductors. Nonlinear optical phenomena.
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Basic literature
SEEGER, K. Semiconductor Physics. Springer Verlag, 1997. (EN)
Recommended reading
KELLY, M. J.: Low-dimensional Semiconductors. Clarendon Press, 1995. (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme EEKR-M Master's
branch M-MEL , 1 year of study, summer semester, theoretical subject
branch M-TIT , 1 year of study, summer semester, theoretical subject - Programme EEKR-M Master's
branch M-TIT , 1 year of study, summer semester, theoretical subject
branch M-MEL , 1 year of study, summer semester, theoretical subject - Programme EEKR-CZV lifelong learning
branch EE-FLE , 1 year of study, summer semester, theoretical subject
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2)Structure of solids, crystallographic systems, crystal lattice defects, noncrystalline solids, heterojunctions, supelattices.
3)Electrons in solids: band diagrams, dispersion relation, effective mass, amorphous semiconductors, distribution function, Boltzmann transport equation, methods of its solution, transport coefficients.
4)Drift, diffusion, galvanomagnetic, thermoelectric, thermomagnetic, piezoelectric and acoustoelectric effects, nonequilibrium charge carriers, hot electrons, ballistic transport.
5)Properties of fundamental microelectronic structures: 3D structures (homojunction, heterojunction, MIS, potential barriers).
6)Properties of fundamental nanoelectronic structures: 2D, 1D, 0D structures (quantum wells, wires, points).
7)Spin effects in electronics.
8)Electromagnetic waves in crystals, isotropic, uniaxial, biaxial crystals.
9)Electromagnetic waves in semiconductors and metals, optical properties of semiconductors in external electric and magnetic field.
10)Lasers: physical principle, coherent radiation generation, different types of lasers, semiconductor lasers.
11)Nonlinear optical effects.
12)Photonic crystals: principle, properties, applications.
13)Reserve.
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1)Introduction: basic features of computer simulators.
2)Structures of solids.
3)Hall efect and concentrations.
4)Radiation absoption.
5)Electromagnetic waves in solids.
6)Lasers.