Mathcad-based Lecture Notes Complete with Live Calculations and Animations
Lecture notes are available in three forms:
- The original Mathcad 12 file (MCD) with pages full size (the embedded live calculations and plots are indicated in the third column below)
- A PDF conversion of the Mathcad notes in which calculations, plots and animations are frozen
- A further PDF conversion that shrinks four pages of notes onto one sheet of paper
NOTE: Browser pdf viewers often omit the greek symbols used in my note sets. If this happens to you, instead use the Adobe Reader or Acrobat
To download note sets, click on your choice of file format in one of the final three columns of the table below
Note that source Mathcad versions of the notes are available only to UVA students
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Title / Subjects |
Live Mathcad Content |
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1 & 2 |
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3 |
OOPs! The Origins of Quantum Mechanics | Single Wave vs. Wave Packet | |||||||||
4 |
Wave Solutions / Stepped Potentials / Waves into Barriers | Boundary Conditions | |||||||||
5 |
Electron in a Quantum Well => Quantization of Energy | Wavefunction for 2D QW | |||||||||
6 |
Crystalline Energy Bands / Conductors vs. Insulators | Wave Propagation | |||||||||
7 |
Fermi Statistics | ||||||||||
8 |
Electrons and Holes | ||||||||||
9 |
Intrinsic (thermally generated) Carriers in Semiconductors | ||||||||||
10 |
Donor and Acceptor Impurity Atoms | ||||||||||
11 |
Semiconductors Doped With Donors or Acceptors | ||||||||||
12 |
Carrier Transport: Drift of Carriers in an Electric Field | Thermal velocity | |||||||||
13 |
Carrier Transport: Diffusion - Spontaneous Rearrangement | ||||||||||
14 |
Minority Carriers, Generation and Recombination, Continuity Equations | ||||||||||
15 |
How to Simplify & Apply the Minority Carrier Continuity Equations | ||||||||||
16 |
P-N Junctions Part I: Concepts, Charges and Fields | ||||||||||
17 |
P-N Junctions Part II: Depleted Layers, Applied Voltage | Diode band diagram vs. V |
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18 |
P-N Junction Current / Equation for Diode with Thick Layers | ||||||||||
19 |
Ideal Diodes / Diodes with Thin vs. Thick Layers | ||||||||||
20 |
Mathcad Diode Calculation / Real vs. Ideal Diodes | Full Diode Parameters and Current | |||||||||
21 |
Not So Plain Diodes I: Solar Cells | ||||||||||
22 |
Not So Plain Diodes II: Photodetectors & Metal Semiconductor Diodes |
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23 |
Ohmic Contacts, Semiconductor Heterojunctions & Band Diagrams | ||||||||||
24 |
Heterojunction Band Diagrams (continued) Not So Plain Diodes III: Optoelectronic Devices |
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25 |
Introduction to Bipolar Transistors | ||||||||||
26 |
Inner Workings of the Bipolar Transistor: Minority Carrier Profiles | ||||||||||
27 |
Inner Workings of the Bipolar Transistor: Minority Carrier Currents | ||||||||||
28 |
Inner Workings of the Bipolar Transistor: DC Parameters | ||||||||||
29 |
BJT Example: Part I: Layer parameters & depletion layers | Full BJT evaluation | |||||||||
30 |
BJT Example: Part II: Currents, α, β and γ parameters | ||||||||||
31 |
REAL Bipolar Transistors | ||||||||||
32 |
Introduction to MOS Transistors | ||||||||||
33 |
MOS Capacitor, Phims, Band-bending, Oxide Voltage | ||||||||||
34 |
Inversion, Non-Ideal Oxide Charge, Threshold Voltage | ||||||||||
35 |
Remembering VT and Ion Implantation Threshold Shifting | Worked VT example | |||||||||
36 |
MOS C-V Curves / Basic MOSFET Operation | ||||||||||
37 |
MOS I versus V | ||||||||||
38 |
MOSFET Worked Example | Full MOSFET evaluation | |||||||||
39 |
Real MOFETS: Processing / Sub Threshold, Hot Carrier & Short Channel Effects | ||||||||||
40 |
Memory Devices to Nano MOSFETS |