• Lecturer:  Çagliyan Kurdak
• Office: 245 West Hall
• Phone: 647-4650
• E-mail: kurdak@umich.edu

• Lecture Time/Place: Tu-Th 2:30-4:00 pm/ 1401 Mason Hall
• Office Hour:  Wed 2-4 pm

After a review of semiconductor physics, the course will focus on quantum transport in semiconductor heterostructures. Topics such as electronic structure of III-V semiconductors, heterojunctions and band gap engineering, quantum wells, superlattices, resonant tunneling structures, two-dimensional electron gas, quantum point contacts, quantum dots and other mesoscopic structures, ballistic transport, coherent transport, and integer and fractional quantum Hall effects will be covered.

I. Introduction and a Review of Quantum Mechanics (2 weeks)

II. Fundamentals of Semiconductors (4 weeks)
    1. Bulk semiconductors
        a. direct and indirect bandgap semiconductors
        b. doped semiconductors
    2. Contacts, junctions and interfaces
        a. metal-vacuum interface, work function
        b. metal-semiconductor interface
        c. p-n junction
    3. III-V semiconductors
        a. heterojunctions and band alignments
        b. epitaxial growth

III. Vertical Transport (3 weeks)
    1. Thermionic emission
    2. p-n junction
    3. Light emitting diodes and lasers
    4. Quantum wells  and resonant tunneling diodes
    5. Superlattices, minibands and Bloch oscillations
    6. Infrared devices
        a. multiple quantum well infrared detectors
        b. quantum cascade lasers

IV. Lateral Transport (4 weeks)
    1. Two-dimensional electron gas
        a. remote doping
        b. electron transport and scattering
    2. Mesoscopic systems
        a. quantum transport and Landauer-Buttiker formalism
        b. quantum point contact
        c. quantum dots and Coulomb blockade
        d. single electron transistor
    3. Magneto-transport, integer and fractional quantum Hall effects

There will be homework assignments (not every week), two midterms, and a final exam. The first midterm will cover sections I and II. The second midterm will cover section III and the first part of section IV. In the calculation of your final score, your homework and each midterm will have 20% weight and the final exam will have 40% weight.

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• Albert Rose, Concepts in Photoconductivity and Allied Problems, Interscience Publishers 1963
• Donald Long, Energy Bands in Semiconductors, Interscience Publishers 1968
• S. M. Sze, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, J. Wiley 1981
• Karlheinz Seeger, Semiconductor Physics, Springer Verlag 1985
• H. C. Casey and M. B. Panish, Heterostructure Lasers (Part A and Part B), Academic Press
• Gerald Bastard, Wave Mechanics Applied to Semiconductor Heterostructures, Halsted Press 1988
• Michael Shur, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Prentice-Hall 1990
• Supriyo Datta, Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Physics, Cambridge University  Press 1995
• The Quantum Hall Effect (edited by R. A. Prange and S. M. Girvin) Springer-Verlag 1987
• John M. Davies, The Physics of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors, Cambridge University  Press 1995