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MICRO-566: Large-area electronics: devices and materials

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Lectures in this course (39)

Weak Bond Model: Electronic Materials

Introduces the weak bond model for electronic materials, focusing on molecular orbitals and defect formation.

Weak Bond Model: Defects in Electronic Materials

Explores equilibrium defect densities, band tail models, and defect creation in electronic materials.

Microcrystalline Silicon: Properties and Applications

Explores the properties and applications of microcrystalline silicon in electronic materials and solar cells.

Defect Kinetics: Light Induced Processes

Explores the kinetics of light-induced defects in electronic materials, covering defect creation, annealing, and unified models.

Transport & Recombination

Explores transport, recombination, traps, and quasi Fermi levels in semiconductors.

Transport & Recombination

Explores transport, recombination, dark conductivity, and photoconductivity in electronic materials, emphasizing the significance of recombination mechanisms in semiconductors.

Photovoltaics

Covers the principles of photovoltaics, including the absorption process, bandgap importance, and electron-hole pair separation.

Thin-Film Processing: Deposition Techniques

Explores thin-film processing techniques, focusing on chemical vapor deposition advantages, growth modes, ALD, plasma role, and discharge initiation.

Thin-Film Processing: Plasma Deposition

Explores plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition for thin-film processing and its impact on film properties and material quality.

Transparent Conductive Oxides

Explores the evolution, properties, and applications of Transparent Conductive Oxides, including challenges in optoelectronic applications and strategies for reducing surface reflections in solar cells.

Transparent Conductive Oxides: Applications and Properties

Explores the applications and properties of Transparent Conductive Oxides, focusing on their use in touch screens, OLEDs, and solar cells.

Transparent Conductive Oxides: Applications and Properties

Explores the applications and properties of Transparent Conductive Oxides (TCOs) in optoelectronic devices, emphasizing their impact on device performance.

Photovoltaics: fundamentals and efficiency

Explores the fundamentals and efficiency of photovoltaics, covering topics such as the photovoltaic effect, bandgap optimization, and efficiency limits.

Defect Kinetics: Annealing and Saturation

Explores defect kinetics, annealing, saturation, and light-induced defect creation in electronic materials.

Transport and Recombination

Explores transport, generation, and recombination in semiconductors, covering drift and diffusion conductivities, trapping mechanisms, various recombination channels, and the role of traps and recombination centers.

Electronic Materials: Optical Properties

Explores electronic and optic properties of materials with lattice structures, including energy bands and band gaps.

Amorphous Bandgap

Covers the properties and atomic structure of amorphous materials, as well as their optical properties and energy gaps.

Large Area Electronic Materials: Introduction

Covers large area electronic materials, including TFT and OLED components, thin film manufacturing, materials for large area applications, and challenges in thin film growth.

Defects in Electronic Materials

Delves into the impact of defects in electronic materials, exploring band tails, XPS analysis, and defect creation mechanisms.