Understanding Ohmic Contacts: Schottky and Avalanche Effects

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Covers the Schottky diode's structure, electrical characteristics, and modeling under various biasing conditions.

Covers semiconductor junctions, focusing on electric fields, current flow, and diode characteristics.

Covers the breakdown voltage in NPN transistors, focusing on the avalanche effect in common base and common emitter configurations.

Covers the behavior of real PN diodes, focusing on generation and recombination currents and their implications in various operational conditions.

Covers the origins and calculations of thermal and shot noise in diodes and transistors, emphasizing their implications in electronic components.

Covers the dominance of hole current in P+/N- junctions and its implications for diode behavior.

Explains the analysis of ideal p-n junction diodes, focusing on current calculations and minority carrier behavior under different bias conditions.

Covers the behavior of p-n junctions at equilibrium, including voltage effects on Fermi energy and depletion regions.