EEL218 / ELL111 - Physical ElectronicsMadhusudan Singh (III.338)

2014-15 : Semester 1

Welcome to Physical Electronics!

This is your introductory semiconductor devices electronics, materials and physics course. This course is a pre-requisite for several courses later in the program - analog circuits, IC technology, VLSI design, etc. If you wish towork some day in the exciting field of semiconductor devices, processing, design, nanoelectronics, photovoltaics,etc., make sure you pay close attention and do well at this course.

Topics covered - semiconductor materials, carriers in semiconductors, band structure, recombination and genera-tion, p-n junctions, M-S junctions, BJTs, MOS capacitors, MOSFETs, optoelectronic devices, photodetectors and solarcells.

A few important features of this course before we get started:

Credits: 3. Course type: core. Slot: C. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays 8-8:50 AM. Venue: IIA.204 Textbook: Solid State Electronic Devices - Ben G. Streetman and Sanjay Bannerjee. While this book will be

followed largely in terms of topics, course material will be supplemented by additional material that will becovered in the lectures.

Course slides / notes: I do not put any slides or notes up online. If you attend classes, you will do ok.If you miss classes, you will be on your own. Attendance policy: I do not mark attendance. It would be to yourdisadvantage to have a poor attendance.

Extra / Makeup classes: In case of any unforeseen circumstances, I will schedule some extra or makeup classes.Unless otherwise stated, these will be scheduled (when necessary) for Saturdays 10AM and last two hours.

Grading structure: 2 mid-term exams (25% each), 1 end-term exam (35%), 3 homework assignments (15% total). All homeworks will be electronically submitted via Turnitin. You are required to use LATEX in typesetting

your work (you could use assignment class for this purpose, or any other class file / package suitable for thispurpose), and must generate a PDF from the markup. Any plots required for an assignment must be plottedusing Matlabr. Before you can submit any assignments on Turnitin, you must first register for the class I havecreated:

Class ID: 8272536, Password: secpass

(From Turnitin support): From a pre-existing student account:

Sign in to your Turnitin account.

Click on the gray "Enroll in a class" tab in the upper left of the screen.

Enter the numeric class ID and case-sensitive enrolment password for the class you wish to add.Please note for security reasons class enrollment information can only be distributed by the instructor.

Click submit.

You will now have the new class listed on your home page when you sign in.

From scratch - for first-time enrollees using Turnitin:

Go to www.turnitin.com (or submit.ac.uk for UK institutions).

Click on the Create Account link to the upper right.

Click on the Student link.

Within this window you will add Class ID and password.

You also will add your account information (first and last name, email, password, secret question.)When you finish and exit the wizard,you can log in to your account by entering your e-mail addressand the password you created in the appropriate fields of the sign in box and clicking Log In..

Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhihttp://ee.iitd.ernet.in/people/msingh.html

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Please note - efforts are on at campus level to integrate Moodle with Turnitin. Should they succeed, youmay find that your experience has become more seamless. If the Moodle integration with Turnitin doesnot work, please go the Turnitin website to submit your work.

Naming of homework files - to make sure that your submissions are graded correctly and you get credit foryour work, please adopt the following naming convention for your PDF files prior to upload: First Name_LastName_Entry Number_HWHomework number.pdf (fill in the italicized placeholders with the correct data). Easiestway to ensure it may to name your .tex file in the same way (please do not use any spaces in the file names).

Late submissions of homework assignments will attract a penalty dependent on how late you are. You will lose10% of the score just by being a few seconds late, so do not cultivate tardiness as one of your virtues.

Scoring style: I score liberally. I am more interested in testing your understanding rather than your ability tomemorize or even do highly accurate calculations.

Grading policy: I mostly do relative grading based on Z-scores:

Zi =xi x

Its a measure of how many standard deviations you are away from the mean. Zi = 0 (or average performance)will likely attract a high C. A and F grades will have to be earned. The latter may be easy to get.

Exams: All exams are open notes, open book and closed communications (phone + Internet) unless otherwisestated.

Remajor / reminor policy: Re-majors / re-minors are strongly discouraged. You can apply for a re-test if you cansupply a medical certificate providing a diagnosis of your illness, or an Institute certificate that attests to yourpresence elsewhere on Institute business. Additionally, I will want to speak personally with your physicianand have a detailed discussion about your illness. All re-tests are significantly more difficult than the normaltests.

Honor code: There is zero tolerance for cheating, plagiarism and any unfair means. If I catch you cheating onany exam or homework, you will get a zero. Two instances of cheating will result in a mandatory F.

I am specifically interested in knowing if you have a laptop.

Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India. 110 016http://www.iitd.ac.in

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