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Institute of Solid State PhysicsTechnische Universität Graz
Crystal structures
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Atoms are arranged in a periodic pattern in a crystal.
The atomic arrangement affects the macroscopic properties of a material.
Many important materials (silicon, steel) are crystals
Crystal Structure
Insulin crystalsGallium crystals quartz
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Crystal Structure
face centered cubic, fcc
body centered cubic, bcc
simple cubic
basis
Bravais lattice Crystal
= +
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Crystal planes and directions: Miller indices
MOSFETs are made on <100> wafers
[ ] specific direction< > family of equivalent directions( ) specific plane{ } family of equivalent planes
A plane with the intercepts 1/h, 1/k, 1/l is the (h,k,l) plane.
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http://lampx.tugraz.at/~hadley/memm/materials/silicon/silicon.php
silicon
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Silicon surfaces
(Source: Sandia Nat.Labs.)
Si(100)
Si(111)
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KOH etches Si {110} > {100} > {111}, producing a characteristic anisotropic V-etch, with sidewalls that form a 54.7° angle with the surface (35.3° from the normal).
http://www.ece.uncc.edu/research/clean_room/fabprocesses/KOH-EtchingAndDecon.pdf
KOH etching of silicon
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Crystal structures
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Structural phase transitions
GaAs, ZincblendeGaAs, Wurtzite
3C - SiC
SiC has about 100 polytypes
4H - SiC 6H - SiC
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Institute of Solid State PhysicsTechnische Universität Graz
Electrons in Crystals
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Electrons
Charge = -1.6022 x 10-19 CMass = 9.11 x 10-31 kgRadius = ?
0.15 nm
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Everything moves like a wave but exchanges energy and momentum like a particle.
Quantum Mechanics
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w.alm
aden.ibm.com
/vis/stm/atom
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Everything moves like a wave but exchanges energy and momentum like a particle.
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Fluorescent lamp
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Molecular energy levels
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Semiconductors
valence band conduction bandband gap
molecular orbitals are plane waves
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wave vector k
p k
2k
A k-vector points in the direction a wave is propagating.
wavelength:
momentum:
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Absorption and emission of photons
semiconductor
hf < Eg no absorption
absorption
emission
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What color light does a GaAs LED emit?
191.6022 10 1.43 J hcE hf
867 nm infrared
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direct bandgap:k = 0
photons can be emitted
indirect bandgap:k = 0
phonons are emitted
Direct and indirect band gaps
Momentum must be conserved when photons are absorbed or emitted.
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Silicon band structure
k=0
Ec = bottom of the conduction band
Ev = top of the valence band
Eg = Ec - Ev
k=0
Electrons with energies in the gap are reflected out of the crystal.
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Light emitting diodes
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Metals, semiconductors, insulators
Metal
Semiconductor or insulator
Eg < 3eV = SemiconductorEg > 3eV = Insulator
Eg
from: Singh
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Copper dispersion relation and density of states
from Ibach & Lueth
4
4
3
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from Ibach & Lueth
Germanium
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Band gap
Electrons with energies in the gap are reflected out of the crystal.
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Density of states
Silicon
filled states empty states
Aluminum
filled states empty states
D(E)
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metal Sn Sn
Structural phase transition in Sn
-Sn, gray tin, diamond structure
-Sn, white tin, tetragonal
transition at 13 C
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Structural phase transitions
Si, diamond structure
Si II, -Sn, tetragonal
silicon makes a diamond to -Sn transition under pressure
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Fermi function
1( )1 exp F
B
f EE E
k T
f(E) is the probability that a state at energy E is occupied.
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Silicon density of states
T = 300 K
1012
electrons in the conduction band
T = 300 K
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Fermi energy
( ) ( )n D E f E dE
The Fermi energy is implicitly defined as the energy that solves the following equation.
Here n is the electron density.
The density of states, the total number of electrons and the temperature are given. To find the Fermi energy, guess one and evaluate the integral. If nturns out too low, guess a higher EF and if n turns out too high, guess a lower EF.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 E [10-19 J]
( ) ( )n D E f E dE
n = 31028 m-3
1047
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free electrons (simple model for a metal)
2 2
2 2 2 212( )
2 2x y zpE k k k k mv
m m
3-d density of states
E
kx
dispersion relation 3/2
2 3
0 for 0( ) 2
for 02
ED E m
E E
ky
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Silicon band structure
Near the bottom of the conduction band, the band structure looks like a parabola.
k=0 [100]
Ec = bottom of the conduction band
Ev = top of the valence band
Eg = Ec - Ev
E
kxky
[111]
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This effective mass is used to describe the response of electrons to external forces in the particle picture.
Effective mass
2 2
2 2 2 212( )
2 2x y zpE k k k k mv
m m
2( ) x
x
kdE kdk m
2*
2
2( )x
x
md E k
dk
2 2
2
( )
x
d E kdk m
Effective mass
*F eE m a
E
kx
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GaN