Class Times
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 - 10:45am
Building 387, Room 101

Syllabus - ECE 132
*Introduction and quick review of necessary physics
*Carriers in pure semiconductors
*Doping (Impurities) in semiconductors
*p-n junctions
*Applications of p-n junctions, (LEDs, Solar Cells, etc.)
*Bipolar Transistors
*Field Effect Transistors
Please attend discussions as the pace of the class is quick and discussions serve as a good review.
To encourage attendance there will be a quiz each discussion section.

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Grading
10% Quizzes
20% Homeworks
25% Midterm
45% Final Exam
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TA(s)

Onur Koksaldi (koksaldi@umail.ucsb.edu) Office Hours: Tuesday 11am-1pm
Kyle Wilkinson (kgwilkinson@umail.ucsb.edu) Office Hours: Thursday 11am-1pm
Yue Shen (yueshen@umail.ucsb.edu) Office Hours: Wednesday 10am-12pm

TA Office Hours are held at the TA Room located in Building 699.

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Discussion Sections:
Tuesday 5-6:50pm Phelps 1445 (Onur)
Wednesday 7-8:50pm Phelps 1445 (Kyle)
Friday 9-10:50am HSSB 3201 (Yue)

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Professor Mishra's Office Hours
TIME: 10-11am Wednesdays
LOCATION: UCSB - Engineering Science Building, Room 2215
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Assignments & Course News
Assignments and solutions will be posted on the web (in pdf format) when ready. When the problem set or solution is available, it will be an active hyperlink. Late assignments will not be accepted without the TA’s prior consent.

Homework assignments will be submitted to the homework box at HFH 3120 .

Problem Set #	Solutions	Posted Date	Due Date
Homework #1	HW #1 Solns	10/16/14	10/28/14
Homework #2	HW #2 Solns	10/28/14	11/06/14
Homework #3	HW #3 Solns	11/05/14	11/12/14
Sample Midterm	Sample Midterm Solutions	11/05/14	N/A
	Midterm Solutions	11/20/14	N/A
Homework #4	HW #4 Solns	12/04/14	12/10/14
Homework #5	HW #5 Solns	12/10/14	12/12/14
Sample Final		12/14/14	N/A

 

The midterm exam will be held on November 13, 2014.

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Description
Electrons and holes in semiconductors; doping (p and n); state occupation statistics; transport properties of electrons and holes; p-n junction diodes; I-V, C-V, and switching properties of p-n junctions; introduction to bipolar transistors, MOSFETs and JFETs. (F)
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Prerequisites
Physics 4 with a minimum grade of C-; Mathematics 5A with a minimum grade of C; and ECE 2A-B (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of C- in both. Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 2 hours.
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ECE 132 Lecture Notes & Data Files
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Notes (1-27)
Notes (28-54)
Notes (55-60)

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Textbook
Solid State Electronic Devices, by B. G. Streetman and S. Banerjee
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