Materials Devices and Micro-electrical-mechanical Systems

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This course deals with the analysis and design of electronic devices. In order to analyze and design these devices, detailed knowledge of semiconductor physics is needed. Therefore, the course will begin with treatment of semiconductor physics. The second part of the course will focus on applying knowledge of semiconductor physics to electronic devices. Devices that will be covered include diodes, field-effect transistors and bipolar junction transistors. Device physics will be used to relate internal charged-carrier behavior with external terminal characteristics of the devices. Electronic devices are used in circuits to make complex analog and digital functions such as amplifiers (for audio, high-frequency, wireless, etc.) and microprocessors. This course is fundamental to electrical engineering and will benefit persons in all areas of concentration especially solid-state devices and materials, electronics engineering, computer engineering, and mechanical engineering. This course will be complemented with the introduction of Micro-electro-mechanical Systems and its function in the development of modern Inertial Measurement Units for sensing of dynamic phenomena.