Course Information

Course Code:
Course Number:
Code Course Name Language Type
FIZ 413 Solid State Electronics Turkish Elective
Local Credits ECTS Theoretical Tutorial Laboratory
3 4 3 0 0
Course Prerequisites and Class Restriction
Prerequisites FIZ 252 MIN DD
or FIZ 252E MIN DD
or FIZ 201 MIN DD
or FIZ 201E MIN DD
or FIZ 313 MIN DD
or FIZ 313E MIN DD
Class Restriction None
Course Description
Concept of solids, crystal and amorphous structures, crystal defects. Electrons in solids, allowed and forbidden bands, band gap. Properties of energy bands, intrinsic semiconductors, doped semiconductors (p- and n-type), fermi energy level. Statistics of electrons and holes. Mobility, Hall Effect, diffusion current, generation and recombination, work function, contact potential. p- n junction and diode. Special diodes: zener diode, tunnel diode, varactor, metal-semiconductor contact and schottky diode, photodiode. Transistors: p-n-p and n-p-n junction transistors, field effect transistors (FET), n-channel field effect transistors (JFET) and drain characteristics, metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFET), thyristors, silicon control rectifier (SCR) and integrated circuits.