MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES

ECE/PHYSICS 235

An introduction to the physical principles underlying solid-state electronic and photonic devices, including elements of quantum mechanics, crystal structure, semiconductor band theory, carrier statistics, and band diagrams. Offers examples of modern semiconductor structures. Prior experience with MATLAB [such asE C E 203] is strongly encouraged but not required.

ECE 536

Characteristics of semiconductors; study of physical mechanisms and modeling of solid state electronic and photonic devices; principles of optoelectronic processing and examples of integrated optoelectronics.

ECE 305

Introduction to some fundamental properties of semiconductor materials and devices through the use of characterization techniques common in modern electronic industry. These concepts include: charge carriers; energy bands; space charge regions; carrier drift, diffusion and recombination; light emission; and lattice vibrations.

ECE 745

Physical principles underlying the action of semiconductor devices, chemical bonding and energy band structure, Boltzmann transport theory, optical and high frequency effects, diffusion and drift, interfaces, properties of elemental and compound semiconductors.

ECE 445

Physics and properties of semiconductors, p-n junctions, metal-semiconductor contacts, homojunction and heterojunction bipolar transistor and physics, metal-oxide-semiconductor and heterostructure field-effect transistor and physics, thin-film resistors, memory devices, quantum devices.