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SENSORS: PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY

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Academic year
2015/2016
Teacher
CESARE MALAGU'
Credits
6
Didactic period
Secondo Semestre
SSD
FIS/01

Training objectives

At the end of the class the student should be capable of solving a problem in the field of semicodnuctors and knowing the state of the art of chemoresistive solid state gas sensors.

Prerequisites

Bachelor in physics

Course programme

The scientific method. Measures, experiment, theory. Physical quantities. The measuring systems. The reference systems. Cohordinates. Vectorial calculus. Maxwell's equations. Bloch's Theorem.
Semiconductors, insulators, conductors. Chemoresistive sensors. Free energy and electrochemical potential. Nanostrctured semiconductors. Tunneling in nanostructured semiconductors. p-n junction. Schottky barrier. Spherical junction. Pinning of Fermi level. Impedance spectroscopy. electrical characterisztions. Thick film technology.

Didactic methods

frontal lessons and exercises at the end of each topic

Learning assessment procedures

oral examination in English

Reference texts

Chemical sensing with solid state devices
Morrison Madou
Physics of semiconductor devices
M.Shur
Metal-semiconductor contacts
Rohderick and Williams
Ashcroft/Mermin Solid state Physics