Semiconductor Fundamentals

Semiconductor Fundamentals is a course designed for everybody, this course is the most successful and Comprehensive Semiconductor course, the course provides the essential foundations required to understand the operation of semiconductor devices such as transistors, diodes, solar cells, light-emitting devices, and more semiconductor technology.
The material will primarily appeal to everybody whose interests are in applications of semiconductor devices. However, any learner seeking an understanding of semiconductors including electrical technology or engineering students will benefit from the course.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Define Semiconductor devices
• Distinguish metals, insulators and semiconductors
• Define Valance electrons
• Draw the band diagram of a semiconductor
• Understand the difference between electrons and holes
• Understand how dopants affect the number of carriers and conductivity of semiconductors
• Describe P-N Junction
• Describe Forward Biasing and Reverse Biasing
• Identify Application areas of Semiconductor

Under this module the following topics will be discussed:

• Definition of Semiconductors
• Semiconductors Terminologies
• Energy Level/Energy Band
• Electron-Hole
• Types of semiconductors
• Intrinsic Semiconductors
• Extrinsic Semiconductors
• n-Type Semiconductors
• p- Type Semiconductors
• Semiconductor junction diode
• Forward Biased
• Reversed Biased
• Semiconductors devices and applications