ECEN 3320 - Semiconductor Devices
Elective - 3 credit hours
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Prerequisite: ECEN 3250 , Circuits/Electronics 3.
Textbook: Neamen, Semiconductor Physics and Devices, Irwin, 1997.
Course Objectives: This course provides the basic understanding of a variety of semiconductor devices. We will start with a discussion of the device, which is used most, the Metal-Oxide-Silicon-Field-Effect-Transistor (MOSFET). We will quickly find out that we need to know more about semiconductor physics to understand the MOSFET in more detail. The MOSFET analysis and the related semiconductor physics will take up the first half of the semester. After that, we will survey other important devices, which require knowledge of minority carrier transport. This includes the p-n diode, solar cells, photodetectors, LEDs, laser diodes and the Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT).
This course provides the link between device models such as those used in SPICE and the devices geometry and material parameters. It will enable you to analyze and design most common devices. It will also prove to be a valuable introduction for those of you who will be involved in integrated circuit design, simulation, layout, fabrication and testing of integrated circuits.
Topics:
- Review of Modern Physics
- Semiconductor Fundamentals
- p-n Junctions
- Currents in p-n diodes
- Bipolar Junction Transistors
- Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Capacitors
- MOS Field Effect Transistors
- CMOS Technology
- Device Circuit models
- Optoelectronic devices
Contribution of course to meeting Criterion 4, the professional component: This course provides 3 semester hours of electrical engineering topics consisting of engineering sciences and engineering design.
Relationship of course to program outcomes: This course is not required and is not included in outcomes assessment.
Prepared by: V. P. Heuring, Staff
May 16, 2005.
