SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS AND DEVICES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: E C E 335 , graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe basic semiconductor materials and physics, including band structure, charge carriers and transport, phonon, optical and thermal properties, and heterojunctions Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Describe semiconductor building blocks and devices, including PN junction, metal-semiconductor contact, metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitor, bipolar junction transistor, metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor, memory devices Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze and design homojunction semiconductor devices Audience: Graduate 4. Describe basic semiconductor device operation principles, including heterojunction bipolar transistor, meta-semiconductor field-effect transistor, modulation-doped field-effect transistor, high-electron-mobility transistor, and thin-film transistor Audience: Graduate 5. Critique a paper in the current literature in the field of semiconductor physics Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe basic semiconductor materials and physics, including band structure, charge carriers and transport, phonon, optical and thermal properties, and heterojunctions Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Describe semiconductor building blocks and devices, including PN junction, metal-semiconductor contact, metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitor, bipolar junction transistor, metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor, memory devices Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze and design homojunction semiconductor devices Audience: Graduate 4. Describe basic semiconductor device operation principles, including heterojunction bipolar transistor, meta-semiconductor field-effect transistor, modulation-doped field-effect transistor, high-electron-mobility transistor, and thin-film transistor Audience: Graduate 5. Critique a paper in the current literature in the field of semiconductor physics Audience: Graduate