Course Catalog

Semiconductors (ELCT 503)

Offered By:  Information Engineering and Technology Faculty

Description

  1. Introduction. Semiconductor devices and their symbols. Current-voltage characteristics. Device models and equivalent circuits.
  2. Basic properties of semiconductors. Semiconductor crystal structure. Band diagram. Energy bands. Electrons. Holes. Carrier concentration. Doping.
  3. Transfer processes of holes and electrons. Generation. Recombination. Diffusion. Drift.
  4. pn-junction. Space charge regions. Majority and minority carriers. Capacitance. Electrica behavior. Schottky junction.
  5. Diode. Current voltage characteristics. Electrical parameters (PSpice model). Special types of diodes: Zener diode, light emitting diode (LED), photodiode.
  6. MES-FET transistor. Junction field effect transistor (J-FET).
  7. MOS (metal-oxide-silicon) capacitor.
  8. MOS FET transistor.
  9. MOS FET transistor in electronic circuits: inverter, gates.
  10. Bipolar transistor 1.
  11. Bipolar transistor 2.
  12. Bipolar transistor in electronic circuits: common emitter amplifier.
  13. Levels of PSpice models. Semiconductor device specifications.

 

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