半导体光电子器件20455.pptVIP

Crystals All materials in this course are crystalline semiconductors Crystal - a structure that can fill all space based on the regular repetition of a particular unit cell Unit cell - unit to construct crystal by regular repetitionPrimitive-smallest cell which will replicate the crystalLarger Cubic-most semiconductors are diamond orzincblende for which the primitive unit cell is complex Compound Semiconductors For optoelectronics, most devices are fabricated of “compound semiconductors” particularly III-V materials made from ?Group III (Al, Ga, In) ?Group V (N, P, As, Sb) elements ?Sometimes