SEMICONDUCTOR PROPERTIES LABORATORY
Introduction to some fundamental properties of semiconductor materials and devices through the use of characterization techniques common in modern electronic industry. These concepts include: charge carriers; energy bands; space charge regions; carrier drift, diffusion and recombination; light emission; and lattice vibrations.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: E C E 271 and ( E C E 335 or concurrent enrollment), or member of Engineering Guest Students Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the relationship between semiconductor material properties and semiconductor device properties, such as mobility, capacitance, and spontaneous/stimulated light emission Audience: Undergraduate 2. Perform electrical and optical characterization measurements using laboratory instruments Audience: Undergraduate 3. Write technical reports based on experimental results Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the relationship between semiconductor material properties and semiconductor device properties, such as mobility, capacitance, and spontaneous/stimulated light emission Audience: Undergraduate 2. Perform electrical and optical characterization measurements using laboratory instruments Audience: Undergraduate 3. Write technical reports based on experimental results Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027