nanoHUB-U Nanoscale Transistors L1.2: The Transistor - Review of Semiconductors I

Table of Contents: 00:09 L1.2: Review of Semiconductors: Part 1 00:54 silicon energy levels 02:11 silicon energy levels / energy bands 03:15 silicon energy levels → energy bands 04:28 insulators metals semiconductors 06:05 density-of-states 08:01 density-of-states near the band edge 09:08 silicon "energy band diagram" 09:48 Fermi function 11:37 n-type semiconductor 12:01 p-type semiconductor 12:29 relating the electron density to the Fermi energy 13:26 carrier density and Fermi energy 14:40 carrier density and Fermi energy 15:34 Fermi-Dirac integrals 17:55 non-degenerate semiconductor 18:52 relating the hole density to the Fermi energy 19:28 equilibrium n0p0 product 20:51 doping 21:12 doping 23:16 equilibrium carrier densities 24:49 wrap-up This video is part of nanoHUB-U's course Nanoscale Transistors developed by Mark Lundstrom. (https://nanohub.org/courses/NT) Nanoscale Transistors is a five-week online course that develops a unified framework for understanding essential physics of nanoscale transistors, their important applications, trends and directions, and how they differ from their micrometer scale cousins.