Physics of semiconductors and semiconductor devices

• understanding and usage of basic concepts of semicoductors
• usage of computational techniques for solving of elementary problems in the field of semiconductor devices

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• General properties of semiconductors
• Energy band structure
• Impurities, doping charge carrier statistics
• Charge transport
• p-n junction
• bipolar transistor
• Field-effect transistor
• organic semiconductors

Students will learn:
- fundamental concepts of semiconductors and semiconductor devices
- fundamental concepts, needed to calculate basic parameters of semiconductor devices

• P. Y. Yu, M. Cardona, Fundamentals of semiconductors, Springer (1999) E-version
• B. G. Streetman, S. Banerjee, Solid state electronic devices, Prentice Hall (2000) E-version
• S. M. Sze, Physics of semiconductor devices, Wiley (2007) Catalogue E-version

• written exam
• oral exam

Egon Pavlica je izredni profesor za področje fizike na Univerzi v Novi Gorici. Egon Pavlica is an associate professor of physics at the University of Nova Gorica.

Izbrane objave / selected references:

1. URBANČIČ, Jurij, SHI, Huanhuan, SHAYGAN NIA, Ali, PAVLICA, Egon. Semiconducting polymer-MXene blends with improved charge carrier mobilities and their application in field-effect transistors. Materials letters. X. 2025, vol. 25, [article no.] 100244, 4 str., ilustr. ISSN 2590-1508., DOI: 10.1016/j.mlblux.2025.100244. [COBISS.SI-ID 236444675].

2. MURASTOV, Gennadiy, AWAIS ASLAM, Muhammad, LEITNER, Simon, TKACHUK, Vadym, PLUTNAROVÁ, Iva, PAVLICA, Egon, RODRIGUEZ, Raul D., SOFER, Zdeněk, MATKOVIĆ, Aleksandar. Multi-layer palladium diselenide as a contact material for two-dimensional tungsten diselenide field-effect transistors. Nanomaterials. 2024, vol. 14, no. 5, 481, str. 1-15, ilustr. ISSN 2079-4991, DOI: 10.3390/nano14050481. [COBISS.SI-ID 197059843].

3. URBANČIČ, Jurij, TOMSIC, Erika, CHHIKARA, Manisha, PASTUKHOVA, Nadiia, TKACHUK, Vadym, DIXON, Alex, MAVRIČ, Andraž, HASHEMI, Payam, SABAGHI, Davood, SHAYGAN NIA, Ali, BRATINA, Gvido, PAVLICA, Egon. Time-of-flight photoconductivity investigation of high charge carrier mobility in Ti3C2Tx MXenes thin-film. Diamond and related materials. 2023, vol. 135, 109879, str. 1-6. ISSN 0925-9635. [COBISS.SI-ID 147310851]

4. YU, Liyang, PAVLICA, Egon, LI, Ruipeng, ZHONG, Yufei, SILVA, Carlos, BRATINA, Gvido, MÜLLER, Christian, AMASSIAN, Aram, STINGELIN, Natalie. Conjugated polymer mesocrystals with structural and optoelectronic coherence and anisotropy in three dimensions. Advanced materials. [Online ed.]. 2022, vol. 43, iss. 1, [article no.] 2103002, str. 1-9, ilustr. ISSN 1521-4095. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adma.202103002, Repozitorij Univerze v Novi Gorici - RUNG, DOI: 10.1002/adma.202103002. [COBISS.SI-ID 143425283]

5. CARROLI, Marco, DIXON, Alex, HERDER, Martin, PAVLICA, Egon, HECHT, Stefan, BRATINA, Gvido, ORGIU, Emanuele, SAMORÌ, Paolo. Multiresponsive nonvolatile memories based on optically switchable ferroelectric organic field-effect transistors. Advanced materials. 2021, vol. 33, iss. 14, str. 1-10, ilustr. ISSN 0935-9648. Repozitorij Univerze v Novi Gorici - RUNG, DOI: 10.1002/adma.202007965. [COBISS.SI-ID 54853891].