MSE 460: Electronic Materials and Processing I, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David G. Cahill
Professor of Materials Science
Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering

MSE 460: Electronic Materials and Processing I

Syllabus
Course schedule
Grading and writing tips for papers
Teaming and topics for Wikipedia articles
Problem sets
1. posted Jan. 26; kinetic gas theory, adsorption, desorption
2. posted Feb. 2; effusion cells, hydrodynamics of CVD, growth-rate uniformity
3. posted Feb. 9; strain relaxation and critical thickness for strained-layer epitaxy
4. posted Feb. 16; LCAO model for electronic structure
5. posted Feb. 23; semiconductor alloys
6. posted March 2; Hückel theory for p-conjugated molecules
7. posted March 9; generation and recombination
8. no problem set for the week of March 16
9. posted March 30; junctions and solar cells
10. posted April 6; thin film solar cells
11. no problem set for the week of April 13
12. posted April 20; thermal management, graphene
Scope of hour exams

February 25: Problem sets 1-4; lectures of Jan. 23-Feb. 11; textbook sections 10.2-10.5, 10.7; 11.1-11.2; 12.1-12.3; 7.3; 5.1-5.3.

March 18: Problem sets 5-7; lectures of Feb. 16-March 9; textbook sections AR 6.1-6.3 and 9.1; JN 4.1-4.5. (You can skip the detailed derivations given in Box 4.1-4.4, but you should understand the results of those derviations.)

April 29: Problem sets 8-10; lectures of March 9-April 20; textbook sections JN 5.1-5.5; 5.7-5.8; JN 8.1-8.6; RW IntroIII-1.1; IntroIII-6; 19.2.1-19.2.3.
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