Covers infrared photodetectors, focusing on MSM detectors and photoconductors, their structures, advantages, disadvantages, and operational principles.
Explores semiconductor physics, inorganic and organic semiconductors, light-matter interaction, and device applications, emphasizing the importance of understanding semiconductor properties and device design.
Discusses the optical properties of semiconductors, focusing on absorption coefficients and the differences between direct and indirect semiconductors.
Covers the behavior of semiconductors, including intrinsic and extrinsic properties, doping, charge carriers, band bending, and p-n junction formation.