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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: We are planning to have two review sessions on April 20 and April 22 and have the final exam on April 24 lecture time. The final exam is close book test covering 28 Letcures and Chapter 1-8 from textbook. I will take some questions directly from the 4 Homeworks so that we will review the Homeworks/Solutions at two review sessions. The final exam will start at 8:00am on April 24 Friday. You need to wake up ealier so that you have 30 minutes more to finish the exam. The solutions for Homework 1-4 are posted now. .

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 (Fahimul) 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 (Saumik)
April 15 (Wednesday)  16. Ferroelectricity (Yifan Wang)  17. Anti-ferroelectricity (Aidan Lachini Broy) 18. Ferromagnetism (Cheong Eun Kim)
April 17 (Friday) 19. Anti-ferromagnetism (Heng-Ray Chuang)  20. Ferroic materials (Nimit Agarwal)

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

ECE 658 Homework 4 due on April 13 2026

ECE 658 Homework 1 Solution

ECE 658 Homework 2 Solution

ECE 658 Homework 3 Solution

ECE 658 Homework 4 Solution

 

Discussion Materials and Presentations:

ECE 658 XPS (Andrew)

ECE 658 XRD (Arya)

ECE 658 DLTS (Yuche)

ECE 658 AFM (Yi-Fan)

ECE 658 STM (Hui-Xin)

ECE 658 SEM (Ryan)

ECE 658 TEM (Roy)

ECE 658 Raman (Chuan-Chen)

ECE 658 FQHE (Fahimul)

ECE 658 Spin Hall Effect (Kisoo)

ECE 658 Anomalous Hall Effect (Ho Jun Lee)

ECE 658 Thermal Hall Effect (Saumik)

ECE 658 Ferroelectricity (Yifan Wang)

ECE 658 Anti-ferroelectricity (Aidan)

ECE 658 Ferromagnetism (Cheong Eun Kim)

ECE 658 Anti-Ferromagnetism (Heng-Ray Chuang)

ECE 658 Ferroic Materials (Nimit Agarwal)