This course provides a general overview about the electrical and optical properties of semiconductors and their application in devices such as diodes, solar cells and transistors. The following topics will be covered:  

• Elementary Properties of Semiconductors
• Crystal Structure
• Energy Bands
• Semiconductor Statistics
• Charge Transport
• Excitations and Optical Properties
• Contacts and Interfaces
• Semiconductor Devices
• Amorphous Inorganic Semiconductors
• Organic Semiconductors

• Karlheinz Seeger: "Semiconductor Physics" (9th Edition, Springer, 2004) o Peter Y. Yu, Manuel Cardona: "Fundamentals of Semiconductors" (4th Edition, Springer, 2010)
• S.M. Sze: "Physics of Semiconductor Devices" (2nd Edition, Wiley, 1981)
• A.J. Heeger, N.S. Sariciftci, E.B. Namdas: "Semiconducting and Metallic Polymers" (Oxford University Press, 2010)