Fundamentals:

• Semiconductors:
• Composition
• Crystal Arrangement
• Crystal Fabrication

• The Bonding Model

• The Bohr Model of the Atom

• The Energy Band Model:
• The Conduction Band
• The Valence Band
• The Band Gap Energy
• Material Classification
• Doping

• Carriers:
• Electrons & Holes
• Doing a Semiconductor
• Density of States
• An Analogy
• The Fermi Function
• Carrier Distribution
• Equilibrium Carrier Concentrations (& Calculations)
• Charge Neutrality
• Temperature Dependence

• Carrier Actions:
• Drift Current
• Diffusion Current
• Mobility & Scattering
• Band Bending and Potential & Kinetic Energies
• Recombination
• Generation
• Plotting V, E , Carrier Concentrations & Currents

• MCDEs:
• Continuity Equations
• Assumptions
• Carrier Lifetimes & Diffusion Lengths
• Problem solving