EE 331 Devices and circuits I

Solid-State Electronics II
Lecture 4

PN-JUNCTION

Doping profile of an ideal uniformly doped pn junction

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

LAPLACES EQUATION

BUILT-IN / CONTACT VOLTAGE

in the p-region

in the n-region

PROVE

equilibrium condition on each carrier:

ALSO BY OTHER WAY: Energy consideration

Barrier Height

Energy-band diagram of a pn junctionin thermal equilibrium

In the n-region,

be written in the form

Keep in mind

Taking the natural log of both sides

Energy-band diagram of a pn junction under

reverse bias

Barrier Height