Team Lecturer ELE 412: Semiconductor Devices (Fall-2008) Teaching Assistant Room Number: 3111 Office Phone: 0212 285 35 54 E-mail: ozayan@itu.edu.tr URL: http://atlas.cc.itu.edu.tr/~ozayan Office Hours: Tuesday, 17:00-17:30; Friday, 16:00-17:30 None Room Number: Office Phone: E-mail: URL: http://atlas.cc.itu.edu.tr/~ Office Hours: Course CRN: 11267 Prerequisites: None Classroom: D5301 Course Hours: Tue, 14:00-17:00 Timing Calender: September the 15 th, 2008 - January the 02 th, 2009 Fall Term: Lectures: 12 weeks Exams: 2 weeks Attendance: 8 Weeks Lectures + 2 Weeks Exams Student cannot leave the room up to end of the lecture hour Assignments are due: 1 week (unless otherwise specified), after issuing Examination Quizzes: Midterm and Final: Books and notebook are closed Books and notebook are closed Lecture notes (slide handouts ) can be only used during the examination. Midterm Exam#1 Midterm Exam#2 Quiz#1 Week# 5 10 14 1
Grading ELE 412 Number of Exams / Assignments Partial Weight Total Weight Midterm Exam 2 20% 40% Quizzes 1 08% 08% Assignments 1 3 4% 12% Ethics 1 +5p +5p ABET Paper For each +1p Final Exam 1 40% 40% 1: In case of cancelation of assignments, their points will be added to midterm exams. Over All Class Assessment: Bell Curve System Course Objectives At the end of the course, students should be able To understand clearly the basic principles of semiconductor devices To understand clearly effects of various processes on device characteristics To design new semiconductor devices Tentative Outlines Lecture#1: Semiconductor Fundamentals Introduction Crystal structures Bohr s Atom Model Energy band diagram Terms Lecture#2: Carrier Populations Terms FD Distribution Function Density of States Electron population Hole population Fermi Levels Lecture#3: Macroscopic Carrier Transport 2
Transport Mechanisms Scattering events Generation and Recombination Processes Transport Characteristics Drift velocity and mobility Conductivity and Resistivity Drift and Diffusion Current Densities Transport Models Lecture#4 pn Junctions Layout and Doping Profile Electrostatic Characteristics Energy Band Diagrams Lecture#5: Non-equilibrium state of pn-junction Forward biasing characteristics Reverse biasing characteristics Metal-Semiconductor Junctions Heterostructures Lecture#6: Metal/Oxide/Semiconductor Stacks Band Diagrams Work functions Flat-band voltage MOS Capacitor MOS Capacitor Operation Modes Lecture#7 MOS Transistor (MOSFET) Fundamentals MOS Capacitor I-V Characteristics Modelling Oxide Charges Lecture#8: More on MOSFET Threshold Voltage Control Scaling Theory Secondary Effects Lecture#9: pn-junctions I&V I-V characteristics Generation-Recombination Currents Transient Characteristics Lecture#10: Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) Fundamentals 3
I-V Characteristics Transient Characteristics Modelling Lecture#11: Secondary effects in BJTs Early effect Kirk effect High injection Current crowding Non-uniform doping Band gap narrowing BJT scaling BJT Ebers-Moll macro model Lecture#12: Miscellaneous issues on BJT New type of transistors New device paradigms Low temperature device operation Semiconductor characterisation Text Books [1] Anderson, B L, Anderson, R L, Fundamental of Semiconductor Devices, McGraw-Hill, 2005. [2] Yang, Edward S., Microelectronic Devices, Singapore: McGraw-Hill, 1988. Ancillaries Some Proprietary Software Packages: PISCES (Stanford University) MINIMOS (Technical University of Vienna) DAMOCLES (IBM) ATLAS (Silvaco: www.silvaco.com ) MEDICI (Synopsys: www.synopsys.com) Academic Ethics All assignments should be student own work. Simply copping someone else s homework is unethical. It will be considered as cheating. All kind of cheating will be punished. Students are encouraged to discuss the problems together. It is responsibility of each student to save his/her work. Cheating in any work brings zero point Signing in for someone else drops lecture visa 4
Dissection of Ethics Points(+5p) Original HWs: 30% Original Exams: 30% Attendance: 40% Bibliography [1] Leblebici, D, Elektronik Elemanlari, IST: Sistem, 2002. [2] Streetman, Ben G., Solid State Electronics Devices, 4 th Ed., NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1995. [3] Pierret, R F, Semiconductor Device Fundamentals, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996. [4] Brennan, K, Introduction to Semiconductor Devices, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005 [5] Taur, Y, Ning, T, Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [6] Fonstad, Clifton G., Microelectronic Devices and Circuits, Singapore: McGraw-Hill, 1994. [7] Dutton, R. W., and Yu, Z, Technology CAD, Mass: Kluwer, 1993. [8] Roulston, D J, Bipolar Semiconductor Devices, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1990. [9] Rechard, Muller RS, and Kamins, T I, Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits, NY: Wiley, 1986. [10] Cilingiroglu, U, Systematic Analysis of Bipolar and MOSFET Transistors, Mass: Artech House, 1993. [11] Neamen, D A, Semiconductor Physics and Devices, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. [12] Sze, S. M., Physics of Semiconductor Devices, 2 nd Ed., Singapore: Wiley, 1981. [13] Wang, Shyh, Fundamentals of Semiconductor Theory and Device Physics, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1989. [14] Sah, C-T, Fundamentals of Solid-State Electronics, Singapore: World Scientific, 1991. [15] Lundstrom, M, Fundamentals of Carrier Transport, 2 nd ed, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 5