NPTEL : NOC:Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices (Electrical Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Digbijoy N. Nath


Lecture 1 - Introduction to semiconductors

Lecture 2 - Introduction to energy bands

Lecture 3 - Fundamentals of band structure

Lecture 4 - Band structure (Continued...) and Fermi-Dirac distribution

Lecture 5 - Density of states

Lecture 6 - Doping and intrinsic carrier concentration

Lecture 7 - Equilibrium carrier concentration

Lecture 8 - Temperature-dependence of carrier concentration

Lecture 9 - High doping effects and incomplete ionization

Lecture 10 - Carrier scattering and mobility

Lecture 11 - Low-field and high-field transport, introduction to diffusion

Lecture 12 - Drift-diffusion and trap statistics

Lecture 13 - Current continuity equation

Lecture 14 - Continuity equation (Continued...) and introduction to p-n junction

Lecture 15 - p-n junction under equilibrium

Lecture 16 - p-n junction under equilibrium (Continued...)

Lecture 17 - p-n junction under bias

Lecture 18 - p-n junction under bias (Continued...)

Lecture 19 - p-n junction: generation-recombination currents

Lecture 20 - Application of p-n junctions

Lecture 21 - Breakdown of junction and C-V profiling

Lecture 22 - Introduction to Schottky junction

Lecture 23 - Schottky junction under equilibrium

Lecture 24 - Schottky junction under bias

Lecture 25 - Introduction to transistors: BJT

Lecture 26 - Basics of BJT

Lecture 27 - Working of BJT

Lecture 28 - Working of BJT (Continued...)

Lecture 29 - Delays in BJT

Lecture 30 - MOS: Introduction

Lecture 31 - MOS: Capacitance-voltage

Lecture 32 - Ideal MOS system: derivation of threshold voltage

Lecture 33 - MOS C-V in more details

Lecture 34 - MOSFET - An introduction

Lecture 35 - Gradual Channel Approximation: Derivation of I-V characteristics

Lecture 36 - Substrate bias effect and subthreshold conduction in MOSFET

Lecture 37 - Short Channel Effects in MOSFET

Lecture 38 - Introduction to compound semiconductors

Lecture 39 - Basics of heterojunctions

Lecture 40 - Band diagram of heterojunctions

Lecture 41 - Heterojunctions (Continued....)

Lecture 42 - Heterojunction transistors

Lecture 43 - III-nitrides

Lecture 44 - Solar cell basics

Lecture 45 - Solar cell (Continued...)

Lecture 46 - Solar cell: Shockley Quiesser Limit

Lecture 47 - Basics of photodetectors

Lecture 48 - Photodetectors: figures of merit and types of devices

Lecture 49 - Junction photodetectors

Lecture 50 - Basics of recombination

Lecture 51 - Basics of LED

Lecture 52 - LED: light extraction and design issues

Lecture 53 - Visible LED: photometry and colorimetry

Lecture 54 - Transistors for power electronics

Lecture 55 - Transistors for power electronics (Continued...) and for RF electronics

Lecture 56 - Transistors for RF (Continued...) and transistors for Memory

Lecture 57 - Basics of microelectronic fabrication

Lecture 58 - Microelectronic fabrication (Continued...)

Lecture 59 - Summary