This course introduces crucial semiconductor devices in ultra-large-scale integrated circuits (ULSI) and optical fiber communications for undergraduate students, engineers, and scientists majoring in electrical/electronic engineering. This course has two primary purposes:

(1) Provide students with knowledge of essential electronic devices, giving them a solid foundation for further studies in electronic circuits and systems.

(2) Develop essential tools by which students can learn about novel electronic devices and their applications in the future.

This course has the following requirements for ability training:

(1) Analysis Ability: This course teaches students how to analyze the operation principle of MOSFETs, BJTs, and other optoelectronic devices. It also aims to cultivate student's analysis capabilities.

(2)Calculating Ability: Students must be able to calculate or deduce the parameters/performance of devices starting from some basic parameters, such as doping density and other structure parameters after they finish the course study.

(3) Self-Study and English Study Ability: Among the contents, some knowledge can be acquired by students by self-study. It is suitable for cultivating their abilities of sorting out data, summarization, and knowledge acceptance.

Because the textbook and PPT documents of the lectures are both in English, it will be helpful for the students to improve their ability to study English by reading these materials.

(4) Presentation and Expression Ability Training: It can improve students' ability to express and present by working on the problems in the homework.

(5) Creative Ability: Teachers should focus on cultivating the students' abilities to think independently and push them to develop a good habit of conducting intensive study on the problems they are working on. Students should try providing different proposals, implementation plans, or simplified calculations to solve the issues.

This course has two primary purposes:

(1) Provide students with knowledge of essential electronic devices, giving them a solid foundation for further studies in electronic circuits and systems.

(2) Develop essential tools by which students can learn about novel electronic devices and their applications in the future.

Fundamentals of Semiconductor Physics

1. Solid State Electronic Device;7th Ed., by B. G. Streetman and Sanjay Kumar Banerjee (PEARSON, 2016.)

2. Semiconductor Physics and Devices; 4th Ed., by Donald A. Neamen (McGraw-Hill, 2011.)