PHYS 432Physics of Solid State Devices
- Faculty
- Science
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1964–65 to 1994–95 (before that, 1963–64 used the number for Advanced Electronics); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
The theories of solid state physics are applied to explain the operation and use of several modern electronic devices, including the p-n junction, transistors, thyristors, tunnel diodes, field effect devices, optical devices, etc.
As printed in the 1972–73 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: PHYS 435
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1963–64 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1972–73 to 1994–95 22 calendars
The theories of solid state physics are applied to explain the operation and use of several modern electronic devices, including the p-n junction, transistors, thyristors, tunnel diodes, field effect devices, optical devices, etc.
Prereq: PHYS 435
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
- 1972–73 PDF p. 484
- 1973–74 PDF p. 526
- 1974–75 PDF p. 591
- 1975–76 PDF p. 407
- 1976–77 PDF p. 358
- 1977–78 PDF p. 398
- 1978–79 PDF p. 387
- 1979–80 PDF p. 400
- 1980–81 PDF p. 424
- 1981–82 PDF p. 433
- 1982–83 PDF p. 384
- 1983–84 PDF p. 397
- 1984–85 PDF p. 397
- 1985–86 PDF p. 409
- 1986–87 PDF p. 413
- 1988–89 PDF p. 425
- 1989–90 PDF p. 448
- 1990–91 PDF p. 426
- 1991–92 PDF p. 435
- 1992–93 PDF p. 427
- 1993–94 PDF p. 430
- 1994–95 PDF p. 432
1964–65 to 1971–72 8 calendars
Review of vacuum tube electronics. Statistics of electrons in semiconductors, transport properties, minority carrier injection, theory of p-n junctions, transistors, tunnel diodes, field effect devices. Applications.
3 lectures, second term.
1963–64 1 calendar
Another title: Advanced Electronics, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Precision electrical measurements, special purpose tubes and solid state devices, high frequency electronics, pulse and digital circuits, stabilization techniques.
2 lectures.