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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Semiconductor Physics by University of Colorado Boulder

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About the Course

This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5630, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. This course introduces basic concepts of quantum theory of solids and presents the theory describing the carrier behaviors in semiconductors. The course balances fundamental physics with application to semiconductors and other electronic devices. At the end of this course learners will be able to: 1. Understand the energy band structures and their significance in electric properties of solids 2. Analyze the carrier statistics in semiconductors 3. Analyze the carrier dynamics and the resulting conduction properties of semiconductors...

Top reviews

SB

May 22, 2020

Very informative course and nice approach to solve problems. Well tailored course suited to under graduate engineering students

PR

Jun 4, 2020

A very useful course for me to understand semiconductor physics. And systematically operated course.

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Jul 16, 2020

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ll-structured. But difficulties may appear if differential equations are not mastered, specially in Week 4.

By Prakriti M

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Jul 25, 2020

The course structure is good. But the exercises are quite hard and no lectures are based on solving such problems.

By Raghavendra k

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Jul 5, 2020

It was a tough course. Especially the 4 th quiz , typing equations with symbols was very confusing.

By Guru A A U

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Jun 4, 2020

you get an in-depth understanding of lattice structures how bandgaps exist in semiconductors.

By Praveen K

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May 31, 2020

not explained in detail as expected but however the assignment and quiz was harder and best

By Yash S

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Jun 25, 2020

Nice but should be more detailed

By Oleg R

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Dec 9, 2022

I found the material very interesting and very thankful for the instructor, university and coursera for this opportunity to learn. However it would have a much better experience if the following were improved:

- The course, unfortunately, appears orphaned. There is little involvement from actual instructor or TAs. Forums have automated posts from the instructor, but little actual content. Posts from other students are mostly spam (with a few exceptions that are far between).

- Peer graded assignments did not get any actionable feedback from graders (other peers). This makes it hard to see mistakes. Unfortunately in some cases the best way to pass is to just resubmit exact same work and have a different set of eyes look at it. Moreover there is a ridiculous amount of junk submissions from other peers (random screenshots, random PDFs, excel sheets etc).

- I found instructor's material delivery hard to follow at times - mostly there would be some assumptions that they state with no explanation.

- Assignments have some obvious errors and typos. Given that this course has been around since 2017, I would have expected those to be ironed out by now (2022). This supports the point about this course being orphaned.

- Lecture material does not cover enough for solving some of the assignments. In a way this is OK and encourages additional research, however it would help to make this more explicit that this material is not covered and we are expected to read up.

By Vivek K R

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Sep 1, 2020

The problems can be very challenging and once you get stuck in one of them, you feel terrible. Also, once you get hold of and master all of them you feel elated. Have experienced both ends of the spectrum, so yeah! If you are looking for an introduction to the course, or you're just trying to learn it lightly, this is not the course for you. Good luck !

By Viachaslau B

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Oct 19, 2022

Short and sweet course, explanations are clear but dry and homeworks test more the math skills than understanding of the concepts. Some questions (e.g. Haynes–Shockley experiment) would be better to be explained in a lecture than left for students to figure out by themselves.

By William H

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Sep 13, 2021

A lot of the material covered in the peer reviewed assignments were not covered in the lectures. This required me to read through various semiconductor physics textbooks to get an idea on how to do these problems. The lectures seemed lackluster.

By Turner J W

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Jul 19, 2021

Felt haphazard compared to my previous courses in this. Also, issues with rounding errors in HW made them very difficult. Decent intro however.

By M S R

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Jul 5, 2020

There are issues regarding the answers in tests despite giving them the correct answers.

By Ankush S

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Jul 28, 2020

There are unnecessary numericals , also no solved examples, neither any particular reading provided for extra learning for more explanation.

By Nahti K

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Jun 19, 2021

Math heavy.

By T

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Apr 30, 2022

Final exam designed to fail students.