ECE 60658: Semiconductor Material and Device Characterization
INSTRUCTOR: Peide (Peter) Ye, Birck (BNC) 2295, Phone 494-7611, E-mail:
yep@purdue.edu
Lecture Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 8:30 am - 9:20 am Brown Hall (old EE Building) 224
Office Hours: 10:00 am-5:00 pm at BNC 2295 or by appointment. Course Website: http://engineering.purdue.edu/~yep/courses.htm
Grading: Final Exam 100% Attendance/in class discussions/Research Presentation will be considered at marginal cases.
Announcement: Please attend the lab tour and experiment session at 3:00pm on the second floor of Birck Nanotechnology Center today (March 6 Friday). This 2.5-3 hour lab session will replace three lecture time on March 13 (Friday), March 23 (Monday) and March 25 (Wednesday). The week of March 16 is official spring break at Purdue. We don't have lectures from March 13 to March 25. You can use the break time to finish Homework 3 and prepare the research discussion sessions as arranged before. It is mandatory to have one presentation for each person who officially registered. Please send me e-mail request as soon as possible if you still haven't done so. The topics were taken if there is a name assigned. Each presentation is expected to be 15 minutes with 2-3 minutes Q&A. You are welcome to use Wiki, Google, ChatGPT or other AI-assistance.
April 3 (Friday) 1. XPS (Andrew) 2. XRD (Arya Keni) 3. DLTS (Yuche)
April 6 (Monday) 4. AFM (Yi-Fan Wang) 5. STM (Hui-Xin) 6. MFM
April 8 (Wednesday) 7. SEM (Ryan Bailey) 8. TEM (Roy Pena) 9. Raman (Chuan-Chen Ko)
April 10 (Friday) 10. Quantum Hall Effect (Reed) 11. Fractional Quantum Hall Effect 12. Spin Hall Effect (Kisoo Nam)
April 13 (Monday) 13. Anomalous Hall Effect (Ho Jun Lee) 14. Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect 15. Thermal Hall Effect
April 15 (Wednesday) 16. Ferroelectricity (Yifan Wang) 17. Anti-ferroelectricity (Aidan Lachini Broy) 18. Ferromagnetism (Cheong Eun Kim)
April 17 (Friday) 19. Anti-ferromagnetism 20. Ferroic materials
Lecture Notes
ECE 658 Lecture 1 January 12 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 2 January 14 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 3 January 16 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 4 January 21 2026
ECE 656 Lecture 5 January 23 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 6 January 26 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 7 January 28 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 8 January 30 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 9 February 2 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 10 February 4 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 11 February 6 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 12 February 9 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 13 February 11 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 14 February 13 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 15 February 16 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 16 February 18 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 17 February 20 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 18 February 23 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 19 February 25 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 20 February 27 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 21 March 2 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 22 March 4 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 23 Mrach 6 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 24 March 9 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 25 March 11 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 26 March 27 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 27 March 30 2026
ECE 658 Lecture 28 April 1 2026
Homework
ECE 658 Homework 1 due on February 2 2026
ECE 658 Homework 2 due on February 23 2026
ECE 658 Homework 3 due on March 30 2026
Discussion Materials and Presentations:
