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Overview
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Objectives
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To provide an overview of the history and recent development in semiconductor devices, with emphasis on:

*   Five imperfections underlying the usefulness of semiconductors
*   The two letters, P and N
*   Diffusion and drift of carriers
*	Bipolar and field-effect transistors
*	Scaled sub-100nm devices
*   Bandgap engineering

Notes
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#. :download:`overview<./overview/Overview of Semiconductor Technology Jan 2010.pdf>`