EE-606: Solid State Devices
Offered: Every Semester
Fall 2012: TTh 12:00 - 1:15pm, CIVL 2101
Course Objective
In the last 50 years, solid state devices like
transistors have evolved
from an interesting laboratory experiment to a technology with
applications in all aspects of modern life. Making transistors is a
complex process that requires unprecedented collaboration among
material scientists, solid state physicists, chemists, numerical
analysts, and software professionals. And yet, as you will see in part
1 of this course (first 5 weeks), that the basics of current flow
though solid state semiconductor devices can be understood by using
some elementary concepts of quantum- and statistical-mechanics. In Part
2 (next 5 weeks), we will use this framework to analyze
bipolar-transistors (Shockley, 1953). And in Part 3 (last 5 weeks), we
will do the same for MOSFETs (Grove, 1967). Although much have changed
in the last 30 years - transistors have gotten smaller, MEMS have
become an important research area, and cross-disciplinary research in
nano-bio-electronic systems is flourishing - yet the simple but
powerful concepts that you will learn in this introductory course will
still provide you the background and a reference point for all your
future research work. (We will give you examples of such new
applications as we go along).
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