Engineering 390 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN ENGINEERING

Topics course. This course focuses on the physics of microelectronic semiconductor technologies for integrated circuit applications. The topics covered include, but are not limited to, fundamentals of semiconductors, p-n junction, metal-oxide semiconductor structure, metal-semiconductor junction, MOS field-effect transistor and bipolar junction transistor. The course emphasizes physical understanding of device operation through energy band diagrams and short-channel MOSFET device design, challenges involved in modern device scaling are also discussed. The course aims to provide a solid understanding of basic physical phenomena pervasive in microelectronic devices (carrier transport both drift and diffusion, carrier generation and recombination, carrier injection and extraction, minority and majority carrier devices, and energy band diagrams), as well as mainstream microelectronic devices (junctions, field effect devices, bipolar devices and optoelectronic devices), and foundations in major trends in microelectronic industry. Prerequisite EGR 220.

Topic: Semiconductor Technologies.