Semiconductor Device Principles

Catalog description

This course prepares students to learn electronic design by providing an understanding of how semiconductor devices work, how they are made, how they are modeled, how they fail, and how they are applied as discrete and integrated components. Emphasis will be placed on silicon devices, especially diodes, bipolar junction transistors, field-effect transistors, optoelectronic devices, microelectromechanical devices, and integrated circuits. Lectures will transition along the progression from the underlying physics to the fabrication process, and end with an introduction to diode and transistor circuit design, using material from the textbook, with supplemental material added where applicable.