Teaching

For the most recent teaching of Prof. Eric Pop, please see ExploreCourses.
For handouts, Stanford students should look at Canvas.

Other Teaching Activities

(with an online presence)

• Electrical and Thermal Properties of 2D Materials and Devices, at 2D Materials Workshop, U. Minnesota (2016)
• Thermal Resistance in Electronic Devices, Short Course on nanoHUB-U (2016)
• Thermoelectrics 101, at Stanford GCEP Symposium (2014)

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The links below are included for historical reasons, and some handouts remain freely available.

Stanford Fall 2014, EE 323: Energy in Electronics

• NEW graduate course offered for the first time at Stanford in Fall 2014
• Updated handouts and links are available through CourseWork
• Old lectures and handouts from the UIUC version are archived below under ECE 598EP

Stanford Spring 2014, EE 116: Semiconductor Device Physics

• Updated handouts and links are available through CourseWork
• Old lectures and handouts from the UIUC version are archived below under ECE 340

Stanford Winter 2014, EE 216: Principles and Models of Semiconductor Devices

• This is the graduate version of EE 116, covering approximately 50% more material
• Handouts and links are available through CourseWork

UIUC Spring 2013, ECE 340: Semiconductor Electronics

• Intro/Motivation, Crystal Lattices, Energy Bands: L1-L2, L3-L5
• Carrier Statistics, Drift and Diffusion: L6-L8a, L9-L11, L12-L15, L16-L18
  
• P-N Junctions: L19-L22, L23-L26a, L27-L29a [PNprob]
• MS, MOS, and MOSFET: L30-L32a, L33-L34a, L35-36a, Lsupp [MOSprob]
• Bipolar Transistors: L37a, L38-L40a, L41a [BJTprob]

• Principles of Semiconductor Devices, a free online textbook by B. Van Zeghbroeck
• Sister courses: Berkeley EE130 (Prof. T.-J. King) and MIT 6.012 (Prof. J. del Alamo)
• Course notes by Prof. J. Singh at UMich (slightly more advanced than 440)
• ECE 440 on the nanoHUB (several lectures from Fall 2008)
• Physical properties of silicon and other semiconductors
• Issue on scaling beyond Si CMOS in the IBM J. Res. Dev. (Aug 2006)
• Britney Spears' guide to semiconductor physics
• An online tutorial on solid crystal structures

UIUC Fall 2012, ECE 340: Solid-State Electronic Devices

• For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester of ECE 340 above

UIUC Fall 2011, ECE 565: Energy Dissipation in Electronics

• For handouts, additional links, see previous semester of ECE 598EP below

UIUC Spring 2011, ECE 440: Solid-State Electronic Devices

• For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester of ECE 340 above

UIUC Fall 2010, ECE 598EP: Hot Chips: Atoms to Heat Sinks

• Syllabus, Intro/motivation: L1L2
• Refs: Balandin (2002), Schelling (2005), Pop (2010)
• Electron & phonon heat capacity, thermal conductivity: L3L4, L5L6L7
• Refs: Debye (1912), Re:Debye (1980), Hall Re:Sommerfeld (1928), Blotekjaer (1970), Olson (1993), Srivastava (2001), Holland (1963), Glassbrenner (1964), Klemens (1993), Kumar (1993)
• Low-dimensional and boundary effects, Landauer conductance: L8L9, L10, L10supp, L11 (Cahill), L12L13
• Refs: Goodson (1999), Swartz (1989), Li (2003), Dames (2004), Schwab (2000), Charlier (2007), Buttiker (1985), Kane (1961), Martin (2009)
• Power, leakage, and temperature in electron devices: L14L15, L16L17
• Refs: Wachutka (1990), Lindefelt (1994), Pop (2005), Tomizawa (1993), Ouyang (2006), Lake (1992), Segal (2002), Roy/Prasad (2000), Zhai (2005), Hanson & Haensch (2006)
• Device, interconnect, package heat transfer: L18L19, L20L21
• Refs: Sunderland (1964), Mautry (1990), Su (1995), Lienhard (2008), Dwyer (1990), Clemente (1993), Rinaldi (2001), Kumar (2005), Pedram (2006), Prasher (2006), Mahajan (2006)
• Final project resources: IEDM format, Sample IEDM paper (Pop), Paper-writing tips (Senturia)
• Old (2009) Wikipedia contributions: IC Cooling, Carrier Scattering, Ballistic Conduction, Thermal Properties of Nanostructures, Interfacial Thermal Resistance, Semiconductor Carrier Mobility

UIUC

Spring 2010, ECE 440: Solid-State Electronic Devices

• For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above

UIUC

Fall 2009, ECE 440: Solid-State Electronic Devices

• For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above

UIUC

Spring 2009, ECE 598EP: Hot Chips: Atoms to Heat Sinks

• Student rating:  teaching effectiveness 4.8 out of 5.0 
• For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above

UIUC

Fall 2008, ECE 440: Solid-State Electronic Devices

• Student rating:  teaching effectiveness 4.8 out of 5.0 
• ECE 440 on the nanoHUB (several lectures from Fall 2008)
• For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above

UIUC

Spring 2008, ECE 598EP: Hot Chips: Atoms to Heat Sinks

• First time this new course was offered
• For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above

UIUC

Fall 2007, ECE 440: Solid-State Electronic Devices

• Student rating:  teaching effectiveness 4.9 out of 5.0 
• Student comments: "Best ECE professor I have had thus far," "Lecture notes work well with the textbook," "Very clear explanations," "Handouts are great," "Lots of real world examples," "Very able and willing to answer student questions," "Metaphors help clarify things better"
• For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above

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updated Aug 2019