01 Semiconductor Materials

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Figure 1.3: Schematics showing the low dimensional structures and their DOS as the 
function of energy 
Exercises 
1.1.
Name two factors that make silicon the most attractive semiconductor 
material in electronic application. 
1.2.
Name three properties and applications of wide band-gap semiconductor 
materials. 

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Bibliography 
1.
B. G. Yacobi, “Semiconductor Materials: An Introduction to Basic 
Principles”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. 
2.
Sheila Prasad, Hermann Schumacher, and Anand Gopinath, “High-Speed 
Electronics and Optoelectronics: Devices and Circuits, Cambridge 
University Press, 2009. 
1 
1-dimensional electron gas .....................11 
2 
2-dimensional electron gas .....................11 
A 
Alpha tin....................... See Semiconductor 
Amorphous chalcogenide..........................8 
Amorphous semiconductor .......................8 
Anthracene ................................................6 
Armorphous semiconductor......................1 
AsF
4
...........................................................6 
B 
Biosensor...................................................7 
Bismuth oxide ...........................................5 
C 
Cadmium selenide........ See Semiconductor 
Cadmium telluride ....... See Semiconductor 
Compound semiconductor ........................1 
Cuprous oxide ...........................................5 
E 
Electro-optic modulator ............................6 
Elemental semiconductor..........................1 
Europium oxide.........................................6