MSE 2620 - Electronic Materials for the Information Age

(crosslisted) ENGRD 2620

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: MATH 1920 and PHYS 2213 or permission of instructor. Corequisite: PHYS 2214. Co-meets with MSE 5862.

R. B. van Dover.

Examines the electrical and optical properties of materials. Topics include the mechanism of electrical conduction in metals, semiconductors and insulators; tuning of electrical properties in semiconductors, charge transport across metal/semiconductor and semiconductor/semiconductor junctions, and the interaction of materials with light; semiconductor electronic devices; and the materials science of device fabrication. Applications in microelectronics, solar cells, electronics, and display technologies are discussed.