Semiconductor materials physics

On successful completion of the course the student will be able to:

• Know about semiconductor materials, important discoveries, and their impact on our society.
• Acquire basic information about electronic structures and classification of different materials such as metals, semimetals, graphene, semiconductors, insulators, topological Insulators.
• Describe how the electron energy dispersion affects the electron mass, mobility and electronic transport.
• Understand how the defects and dopants affect the electronic properties of semiconductors.
• Understand and interpret band diagrams of semiconductor heterostructures.
• Understand the principles of quantum mechanical effects in semiconductor nanostructures.
• Describe methods for single crystal growth and epitaxy of semiconductor materials.
• Information about the discovery and physics of 2D materials such as graphene, h-BN, MoS2, topological insulators and their heterostructures.
• Understand and describe the charge and spin polarized electronic transport in semiconductors and novel 2D materials.