- General course information
- Course code: SEM10111
- Course title: BAND STRUCTURE SIMULATION IN SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS
- Course title in English: Simulation on energy band structure in semiconductor materials.
- Credits: 3
- Course structure:
- Lecture hours: 45
- Practical hours: 0
- Tutorial hours: 0
- Other (self-study hours): 90
- Knowledge block: Specialisation
- Prerequisites: Solid State Physics
- Prior courses: Quantum Mechanics 1
- Brief course description:
The course gives students foundational and advanced knowledge of energy-band theory in solids. It presents methods for computing the band structure of materials and discusses their physical properties in terms of that band structure. Representative band structures of semiconductors such as Si and GaAs are examined in detail. Students also learn to apply the tight-binding model to compute the band structure of simple semiconductors.