SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS AND DEVICES

ECE 548

Bipolar and MOS devices in monolithic circuits. Device physics, fabrication technology. IC-design for linear and nonlinear circuitry.

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 845

Transport of carriers in electronic devices, starting from the Boltzmann equation and the quantum mechanical treatment of scattering, and covering applications to devices; transport in 2D structures; modeling of transport; experiments and devices involving hot electrons.

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 335

Characteristics of semiconductors; study of physical mechanisms and circuit modeling of solid state electronic and photonic devices; principles of microelectronic processing and examples of integrated circuits.