News:
General Information:
Lecturer:
Reza
Sarvari (office EE221) 
Classes:
TT 1:30-3:00 ;
cw
Text:
Mark Lundstrom, "Fundamentals of Nanotransistors", 2017
Supriyo Datta, "Lessons from Nanoelectronics" , 2018
Kwok K. Ng, "Complete Guide to Semiconductor
Devices", 2nd Ed., 2002
Brennan and Brown, "Theory of Modern Electronic Semiconductor
Devices", 2002
Sze
and Ng," Physics
of Semiconductor Devices", 3rd Ed., 2006
Wong, "Beyond CMOS Technologies for Next Generation Computer Design," 2019
Other Suggested Books:
Rhoderick and Williams, "Metal-Semiconductor Contacts",
1988
Sze, "High Speed Semiconductor Devices", 1990
Sze, "Modern Semiconductor Device Physics", 1998
Wang, "Fundamentals of Semiconductor Theory and Device
Physics", 1989
Taur and Ning, "Fundamentals of Modern VLSI
Devices", 2009
Li, "Semiconductor Physical Electronics", 2006
Yariv, "Quantum Electronics", 1975
Bergh and Dean, "Light-Emitting
Diodes", 1976
Weisbuch and Vintner, "Quantum Semiconductor Structures", 1991
Singh, "Physics of Semiconductors and their
Heterostructures", 1994
Singh, "Semiconductor Optoelectronics", 1995
Liu, "Fundamentals of III-V Devices", 1999
Mishra and Singh, "Semiconductor Device Physics and
Design", 2008
Roblin and Rohdin, "High-speed Heterostructure Devices", 2002
Syllabus:
Grades(tentative):
25%
Homework and Project
35% Mid-term and Quizes
40% Final Exam
Lectures: ( 
Utube )
Lecture05 (
Lecture05 ) Overview
Lecture06 (
Lecture06 ) Overview 2
Lecture07 (
Lecture07 )
Homeworks/Exams
and solutions:
homework
1 ;
solution
1
Lecture Notes:
Slides:
SSD_01
SSD_02
SSD_03
SSD_04
SSD_05
SSD_06
SSD_07
SSD_08
SSD_09
Purdue-lectures 8
Purdue-lectures 9
Purdue-lectures 10
Purdue-lectures 11
Purdue-lectures-T3
Purdue-lectures-T4
Solarcell Chapter
DattaBookChapters
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A
B
Ci
D
.
.
- Surface Potential
- Schottky diode
- MOS Cap
- Threshold Voltage
- Short/Narrow Channel Effects
- Drain Induced Barrier Lowering (DIBL)
- Gate Induced Drain Leakage (GIDL)
- Channel Length Modulation
- Hot Carriers
- CCD Basics
- CCD Appplications
-
A
B
Ci
D
.
.
- Silicon-on-Insulator
- SOI versus Bulk
- SIMOX
- Bonded
- Eltran
- Partial/Full Depletion
- Floating Body Effects
- Silicon-Germanium
- Band Gap Offsets
- Strained Layers
- Mobility Enhancement
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-
-
A
B
Ci
D
.
.
- Nonvolatile Memories
- EPROM/EEPROM/Flash
- MNOS Memories
- Ferroelectric Memories
- Electrolyte Memories
- Volatile Memories
- SRAM
- DRAM
- Sense Amplifiers
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-
-
Semiconductor
heterojunctions :
- band offsets
- carrier redistribution
- pseudomorphic structures
- vertical transport via thermionic emission
- field-aided thermionic emission
- field emission
- diffusion theory
- two-dimensional carrier gases
- modulation doping
- lateral transport
- applications of heterojunctions and Schottky
diodes
Bipolar and
heterojunction bipolar transistors:
- operational principle and basic theory
- high level injection
- Ebers-Moll and Gummel-Poon models
- secondary effects
- high frequency behavior
- use of heterojunctions to enhance device
characteristics
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-
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Junction and
metal-semiconductor field effect transistors :
- comparative analysis
- gradual channel theory
- high frequency behavior
- velocity saturation effects
- noise properties
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-
pnpn :
- Shockley Diode
- Thyristor
- Breakdown Voltage
- Switching
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-
-
Negative Resistance
Devices :
- Negative Resistance Concept
- Tunnel Diodes
- IMPATT Diodes
- Gunn Effect Devices
- Power-Frequency Limitations
- BARITT and TRAPATT diodes
-
-
-
Light-emitting
diodes:
- nature of optical transitions
- Recombination / Emission
- materials considerations
- internal and external quantum efficiencies
- modulation
- White Light Emitters
-
Semiconductor
lasers :
- spontaneous and stimulated emission
- Einstein A and B coefficients
- optical modes
- criterion for lasing
- heterostructures
- device structures and geometries
- single-frequency lasers and applications to
fiber-optic communications
- modulation
- Side vs Vertical Emission
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Photodetectors and
solar cells:
- Light Absorption
- photoconductive and photovoltaic detectors
- noise considerations
- device structures and quantum efficiency
- avalanche photodiodes
- solar cell efficiency
- surface recombination effects
- tandem structures
- materials systems
- Avalanche Photodiodes
Photodetectors and
solar cells:
- photoconductive and photovoltaic detectors
- noise considerations
- device structures and quantum efficiency
- avalanche photodiodes
- solar cell efficiency
- surface recombination effects
- tandem structures
- materials systems
-
Nanoelectronic
Devices:
Same Course at
Other Schools!
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;
Cornel
;
RPI ;
RPI2
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