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Semiconductor Devices & Circuits is a free engineering handbook covering important course topics, notes, diagrams, equations, formulas and study materials. Use this digital book and reference guide for Diploma, BE, BTech, BSc and related degree courses.

Explore 160 topics across 5 chapters, including semiconductor materials, crystal growth, charge carriers, drift and diffusion, semiconductor fabrication, p-n junctions, diodes and metal-semiconductor contacts. Ideal for exam revision, viva, interviews, assignments and projects.

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78 LISTED TOPICS FROM 160

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS & CRYSTALS
1. Haynes-Shockley Experiment
2. Semiconductor Materials
3. Crystal Lattice
4. Cubic Lattices
5. Crystal Planes and Directions
6. Diamond Lattice
7. Bulk Crystal Growth
8. Single-Crystal Ingot Growth
9. Semiconductor Wafers
10. Epitaxial Growth
11. Vapor-Phase Epitaxy
12. Molecular Beam Epitaxy

CHARGE CARRIERS & OPTICAL PROCESSES
13. Charge Carriers in Semiconductors
14. Effective Mass
15. Intrinsic Semiconductors
16. Extrinsic Semiconductors
17. Electrons and Holes in Quantum Wells
18. Fermi Level
19. Compensation and Space-Charge Neutrality
20. Carrier Drift and Resistance
21. Optical Absorption
22. Photoluminescence
23. Electroluminescence
24. Carrier Lifetime and Photoconductivity
25. Direct Electron-Hole Recombination
26. Indirect Recombination and Trapping
27. Steady-State Carrier Generation and Quasi-Fermi Levels
28. Photoconductive Devices

TRANSPORT, DIFFUSION & MOBILITY
29. Diffusion Processes
30. Carrier Diffusion, Drift and Built-In Fields
31. Diffusion, Recombination and Continuity Equation
32. Steady-State Injection and Diffusion Length
33. Quasi-Fermi-Level Gradients
34. Temperature Dependence of Carrier Concentration
35. Temperature and Doping Effects on Mobility
36. High-Field Effects
37. Hall Effect

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FABRICATION
38. P-N Junction Fabrication: Thermal Oxidation
39. P-N Junction Diffusion
40. Rapid Thermal Processing
41. Ion Implantation
42. Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)
43. Photolithography
44. Etching
45. Metallization

P-N JUNCTIONS & DIODES
46. Equilibrium Conditions
47. Equilibrium Fermi Levels
48. Junction Space Charge
49. Forward- and Reverse-Biased Junctions
50. Carrier Injection
51. Reverse Bias
52. Reverse-Bias Breakdown
53. Zener Breakdown
54. Avalanche Breakdown
55. Rectifiers
56. Breakdown Diodes
57. Transient and AC Conditions
58. Reverse-Recovery Transient
59. Ideal Diode Model
60. Contact Potential Effects on Carrier Injection
61. Switching Diodes
62. P-N Junction Capacitance
63. Transition-Region Recombination and Generation
64. Ohmic Losses
65. Graded Junctions

METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR CONTACTS
66. Metal-Semiconductor Junctions: Schottky Barriers
67. Current Transport Processes
68. Thermionic-Emission Theory
69. Diffusion Theory
70. Thermionic-Emission-Diffusion Theory
71. Rectifying Contacts
72. Tunneling Current
73. Minority-Carrier Injection
74. MIS Tunnel Diodes
75. Barrier-Height Measurement
76. Activation-Energy Measurement
77. Photoelectric Measurement
78. Ohmic Contacts

Study semiconductor physics, device fabrication, p-n junction characteristics and electronic transport with this free reference ebook.