Semiconductor Devices

Enrollment Requirements: Undergraduate Prerequisite: ENGEC 455 and ENGEC 574; Graduate Prerequisite: Graduate Standing Fundamentals of carrier generation, transport, recombination, and storage in semiconductors. Physical principles of operation of the PN junction, metal-semiconductor contact, bipolar junction transistor, MOS capacitor, MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor), JFET (Junction Field Effect Transistor), and bipolar junction transistor. Develops physical principles and models that are useful in the analysis and design of integrated circuits.