ECE2 Physics for Electrical & Computer Engineers (Spring 2019)

Class time: Mondays and Wednesdays 2 to 3:40 pm

Location: Franz Hall 1260
Instructor: Professor Chee Wei Wong
Office: Room 56-147D Engineering IV
Email: cheewei.wong@ucla.edu
Office hours: Thursdays 4 to 5 pm
Teaching assistants: Jiahui Huang
TA meeting room: Room 67-112 Engineering IV
Email: jiahuihuang@g.ucla.edu
Office hours: Thursdays 10 to 11 am
Jin Ho Kang
TA meeting room: Room 67-112 Engineering IV
Email: zse0147@g.ucla.edu
Office hours: Fridays 2 to 3 pm
TA recitations: 1A: Fridays 11 to 11:50 am 156 Royce Hall
1B: Wednesdays 1 to 1:50 pm 5422 Boelter Hall
1C: Fridays 10 to 10:50 am 78 Dodd Hall
Course site: ccle.ucla.edu (homeworks and handouts)
Required textbook:
D. A. Neamen, Semiconductor Physics and Devices: Basic Principles, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill,
2012.
Other supplementary references:
S. O. Kasap, Principles of Electronic Materials and Devices, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2006.
B.G. Streetman and S. Banerjee, Solid State Electronic Devices, 7th edition, Prentice Hall, 2000.
Grading: 49% homeworks (9 in total) due in class
25% midterm examination
25% final examination
1% filling up end-of-course survey
Homework:
The due dates of the homeworks have been assigned as below. Late homework is not
accepted.
Exams:
Midterm: May 1st 2019, 2 to 3:50 pm. The midterm emphasizes the material covered
through the 5th week. For midterm, you may bring in one 8 ½” x 11” cheatsheet of notes
(double-sided is fine). Bring calculator!
Finals: June 11th 2019 (Tuesday), 8 to 11 am. The final exam is cumulative. For the finals,
you may bring in three 8 ½” x 11” cheatsheet of notes (double-sided is fine). Bring
calculator!

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Course Objective:
This is the basic course of physics for ECE students. The objective of this course is to introduce
you to the field of physical electronics while giving you a solid foundation for electrical
engineering.
Course Outline
1 The Crystal Structure of Solids
1.1 Semiconductor Materials
1.2 Types of Solids
1.3 Space Lattices
1.4 The Diamond Structure
1.5 Atomic Bonding
1.6 Imperfections and Impurities in Solids
1.7 Growth of Semiconductor Materials
2 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
2.1 Principles of Quantum Mechanics
2.2 Schrödinger’s Wave Equation
2.3 Applications of Schrödinger’s Wave Equation
2.4 Extensions of wave Theory to Atoms
3 Introduction to the Quantum Theory of Solids
3.1 Allowed and Forbidden Energy Bands
3.2 Electrical Conduction in Solids
3.3 Extension to Three Dimensions
3.4 Density of States Function
3.5 Statistical Mechanics
4 The Semiconductor in Equilibrium
4.1 Charge Carriers in Semiconductors
4.2 Dopant Atoms and Energy Levels
4.3 The Extrinsic Semiconductor
4.4 Statistics of Donors and Acceptors
4.5 Charge Neutrality
4.6 Position of Fermi Energy Level
5 Carrier Transport Phenomena
5.1 Carrier Drift
5.2 Carrier Diffusion
5.3 Graded Impurity Distribution
5.4 The Hall Effect
6 Nonequilibrium Excess Carriers in Semiconductors
6.1 Carrier Generation and Recombination
6.2 Characteristics of Excess Carriers
6.3 Ambipolar Transport
6.4 Quasi-Fermi Energy Levels
7 The pn Junction
7.1 Basic Structure of the pn Junction
7.2 Zero Applied Bias
7.3 Reverse Applied Bias

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 7.4 Junction Breakdown
7.5 Nonuniformly Doped Junctions
8 The pn Junction Diode
8.1 pn Junction Current
8.2 Generation-Recombination Currents and High-Injection Levels
8.3. Small-Signal Model of the pn Junction
8.4 Charge Storage and Diode Transients
9 Metal-Semiconductor and Semiconductor Heterojunctions
9.1 The Schottky Barrier Diode

Schedule and homework questions ( 3 questions each week; first question solved in
discussion section):
Homework #1 (due 4/8/2019):
Read Chapters 1 and 2.
Solve Problems 1.14, 1.24 , 2.10, and 2.17
Homework #2 (due 4/15/2019):
Read Chapter 3.
Solve Problems 2.26, 2.31, and 3.5
Homework #3 (due 4/22/2019):
Read Chapter 4.
Solve Problems 3.16, 3.26, and 3.30
Homework #4 (due 4/29/2019):
Read Chapter 5.
Solve Problems 4.2, 4.17, 4.36, and 4.49
Homework #5 (due 5/6/2019):
Read Chapter 6.
Solve Problems 5.2, 5.8, 5.30, and 5.40
Homework #6 (due 5/13/2019):
Read Chapter sections 7.1 to 7.3.
Solve Problems 6.2, 6.9, and 6.30
Homework #7 (due 5/20/2019):
Read Chapter sections 7.4 to 7.6.
Solve Problems 7.2, 7.9, and 7.17
Homework #8 (due 5/27/2019): [Memorial Day: please leave at Jiahui’s box in E6 Room 210]
Read Chapter 8.
Solve Problems 7.30, 7.35, and 7.44
Homework #9 (due 6/7/2019 – note Friday):
Solve Problems 8.2, 8.28, and 8.48