Course10810811255 lectures
Semiconductor Devices and Circuits
Prof. Sanjiv Sambandan · IISc Bangalore
About
This course is intended to equip any students interested in electronic materials and devices with the fundamentals of semiconductor devices. The materials covered in The course begins with fundamentals and accelerates to advanced topics in semiconductor physics. The course connects circuit performance to material and device behavior. At the end of the course, the students would learn to: 1.) Learn the important concepts related to semiconductor technology. 2.) Perform the analysis and design of semiconductor devices (electrostatics and current-voltage characteristics) from fundamental principles. 3.) Learn how to extract device parameters by suitable experiments. 4.) Engineer and innovate on device design and even construct new devices intended for special applications in circuits. There is special emphasize placed on this aspect. 5.) Learn the fundamentals of circuit design and observe how device properties and device design impact circuit behaviour (eg. dc and ac response, noise) 6.) Extend the concepts and analysis to advanced topics such as: devices based on disordered semiconductors (eg. organic semiconductors, amorphous metal oxides), flexible and printed electronics, etc.
INTENDED AUDIENCE : Graduate and Senior Undergraduate Students pursuing studies in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Electronic Materials, Physics
PREREQUISITES : A background in electrical engineering helps to some extent, but this is not required
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Companies working in semiconductors and integrated circuits: Intel, AMD, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices etc.
Lectures
WEEK 1 - Excursion in Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum Mechanics: Concept of Wave Particle, Schrodinders Equation
- Quantum Mechanics:Particle in a Box
- Quantum Mechanics:Particle in a Box -Continued, Harmonic Oscillator
WEEK 2 - Excursion in Solid State Physics
- Solids : Formation of Bands, Kronig-Penny Model
- Solids : Kronig-Penny Model - Continued
- Solids : Electrons and Holes
- Solids : Electrons and Holes - Continued
- Solids : Crystals
WEEK 3 - Density of States, Fermi Function and Doping
- Density of States
- Density of States - Continued, Fermi Function
- Fermi Function - Carrier Concentration
- Doping
- Doping - Continued
WEEK 4 - Recombination-Generation, Charge Transport and Continuity Equation
- Recombination and Generation
- Recombination and Generation - Continued
- Recombination and Generation - Continued, Charge Transport
- Charge Transport - Continued
- Continuity Equation
WEEK 5 - Metal-Semiconductor Junctions
- Junctions
- Metal Semiconductor Junctions
- Schottky Contact : Electrostatics
- Schottky Contact : Current-Voltage (IV) Characteristics
- Schottky Contact : IV Characteristics - Continued
WEEK 6 - P-N Junctions
- Schottky Contact : Small Signal Impedance
- PN Junctions : Electrostatics
- PN Junctions : IV Characteristics
- PN Junctions : Small Signal Impedance
- PN Junctions : Non-Idealities
WEEK 7 - Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT)
- Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT)
- BJT : IV Characteristics
- BJT : Non-Idealities and Equivalent Circuit Modeling
WEEK 8 - Metal Oxide Semiconductor Capacitor (MOSCAP) and CV Characteristics
- Metal Oxide Semiconductor Capacitor (MOSCAP)
- MOSCAP - Continued
- MOSCAP : CV Characteristics
- MOSCAP : CV Characteristics - Continued
WEEK 9 - MOSFET: I
- MOSFET: Introduction
- MOSFET: I-V characteristics
- MOSFET: I-V characteristics - Continued
- MOSFET: I-V characteristics - Cont..
- Subthreshold swing, Additional concepts
WEEK 10 - MOSFET: II
- Trapped charge, Body-bias
- Scaling of MOSFETs
- Scaling of MOSFETs - Continued, Leakage currents in MOSFETs
- MOSFET characterization: Parameter extraction
- MOSFET characterization: Trapped charges, contact resistance
WEEK 11 - Circuits
- MOSFET as a switch
- MOSFET as a switch - Continued
- Amplifiers using MOSFET
- Amplifiers using MOSFET - continued
- Circuits: Frequency Response, Noise
WEEK 12 - Thin Film Transistors (TFTs)
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IISc Bangalore
- Department
- Electrical Engineering
- Teacher
- Prof. Sanjiv Sambandan
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Engineering
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge.
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