Interactive figures
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2. Semiconductor Fundamentals
- Fig.2.2.1
Potential and Energy levels
in an infinite quantum well -
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- Fig.2.2.2
Energy levels and wavefunctions
in an infinite quantum well -
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- Fig.2.2.2a
Probability density functions in an infinite
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- Fig.2.2.3
Potential energy and wavefunctions
in an infinite quantum well -
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- Fig.2.2.4
Energy levels in an infinite quantum well -
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- Fig.2.2.5a
The crystal structure of diamond -
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- Fig.2.2.5b
The crystal structure of zincblende -
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- Fig.2.2.6
The periodic potential assumed in the Kronig-Penney model -
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- Fig.2.2.7
Graphical solution to the Kronig-Penney model -
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- Fig.2.2.8
Energy band of a periodic potential - the Kronig-Penney
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- Fig.2.2.9
Kronig-Penney wavefunctions. -
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- Fig.2.2.10
Band structure of metals, insulators and semiconductors -
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- Fig.2.2.11
Simplified band diagram of a semiconductor -
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- Fig.2.2.12
Energy band diagram showing electron and hole motion in
an applied electric field -
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- Fig.2.2.14
Temperature dependence of the energy bandgap. -
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- Fig.2.2.15
Doping dependence of the energy bandgap. -
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- Fig.2.3.1
Density of states in one, two
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- Table.2.3.1
Degeneracy of the energy levels in quantum wells, square wires and
cube-like dots. -
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- Fig.2.4.1
Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein and Maxwell Boltzmann
distributions. -
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- Fig.2.4.2
Electron configurations - an example. -
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Table of all possible configuration of the example system. -
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- Fig.2.4.4
The Fermi-Dirac distribution function - an example. -
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- Fig.2.4.5
The Fermi-Dirac distribution function. -
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- Fig.2.5.2
The carrier density integral. -
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- Fig.2.6.1
Intrinsic carrier density versus temperature. -
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- Fig.2.7.1
The fermi energy in an extrinsic semiconductor: Graphical
solution to the general analysis. -
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- Fig.2.7.2
Carrier density versus temperature. -
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- Fig.2.8.1
Electron and hole mobility versus doping density
for silicon. -
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- Fig.2.9.2
Resistivity of n-type and p-type silicon versus
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- Fig.2.9.3
Sheet resistance of a 14 mil thick silicon wafer. -
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© Bart J. Van Zeghbroeck, 1997
