ECE-305: Semiconductor Device Fundamentals (Fall 2009)
Lectures
| | Muhammad A. Alam
section 02
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Fazil Ahmad
Teaching Assistant |
| Class Time / Room | TTh 9:00-10:15 am / EE 117 |
N/A | | Office | EE 320 |
EE 306 | | Office Hours | TTh 10:30- 11:30 AM |
M 12:30PM to 1:30 PM W 10:30AM- 12 PM, Th 4:30 to 6PM & F 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM | | Email | alam@ecn.purdue.edu |
ahmadf@purdue.edu |
Course Introduction
There is a revolution in the making in the Electronics industry: Today you can fit close to a million transistors within the period at the end of the sentence. Indeed, some say that the number of transistors made in a given year in companies like Intel and TSMC is larger than the number of leaves or ants in the world! Flat panel displays that uses tens of millions of electronic components is a huge and growing industry. The solar cells promise to change the ways we harvest and use energy and the light emitting diodes is expected to change the lighting industry forever. And many suggest that 20-25% of cost of a modern car is because of advanced electronics – and the electric car itself is in the horizon.
Remarkably, all these technological advancements depend on tiny electronic components made of semiconducting material of various types arranged in particular combination. In this course, I will tell you how these components are made and how do they operate. Once you understand the basic physical principles of these devices, and how they work together to make our computers, flat-panel TV, ipods, and cars go, you will never think about electronics the same way you did before. Welcome to the class.
Course Content
This course explains what goes on inside solid-state devices, thereby relating the internal operation of the devices to the
electrical characteristics derived from the devices. There are three parts to the course:
Part I - Semiconductor Fundamentals; covers the basics required for device analysis.
Part II - Diodes; examines the operation of the pn junction diode and related diode (two-terminal) devices.
part III - Transistors; investigates the operation of the MOSFET (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor) and
BJT (Bipolar Junction Transistor).
Course Announcements
- 08/19/09: Classes start from Monday 24/08/2009 for Prof. Pierret's section
and from Tuesday 25/08/2009 for Prof. Alam's section
- 08/25/09: Homework#1 posted; Due in class on date 09/01/09
- 08/25/09: Lecture notes for first week posted
- 09/29/09: No Class on Thursday ( 10/01/09)
- 09/29/09: Submit Homework to TA in his office hours on Thursday (10/01/09). Office Hours: EE305; 4:30PM-6:00PM
- 09/29/09: Return Extra credit problem on Tuesday in class (10/06/09).
- 10/13/09: Read about "Nobel Awarded for Harnessing Light."
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