ECE 69500 - Essentials of MOSFETs

Note:

This course will run the first 5 weeks of the fall semester and is available through PEO, or online for WL students only. Students will have access to the instructor through a discussion forum and by office hours. If there is sufficient enrollment, weekly help sessions will be scheduled.

Course Details

Lecture Hours: 1 Credits: 1

Counts as:

Experimental Course Offered:

Fall 2018

Requisites:

ECE 30500 or ECE 60600 or ECE 69500 Primer on Semiconductor Fundamentals

Requisites by Topic:

Understanding of semiconductor fundamentals

Catalog Description:

This course develops a simple framework for understanding the essential physics of modern nanotransistors and also discusses important technology of considerations and applications of MOSFETs. The goal is to do this in a way that is broadly accessible to students with only a very basic knowledge of semiconductor physics and electronic circuits. The course is designed for anyone seeking a sound, physical but simple understanding of how nanoscale transistors, specifically MOSFETS, operate. The course should be useful for advanced undergraduates, beginning graduate students as well as practicing engineers and scientists.

Required Text(s):

None.

Recommended Text(s):

  1. Semiconductor Device Fundamentals , 2nd Edition , Robert F. Pierret , Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. , 1996 , ISBN No. 0-201-54393-1
  2. Students will be provided a PDF of Fundamentals of Nanotransistors , Mark Lundstrom , World Scientific , 2017

Lecture Outline:

Hours Major Topics
.5 Course introduction
1 Transistors as black boxes
1 Device metrics
1 Digital and analog circuits
.5 Compact Model
1 Energy band description of MOSFETs
1 Traditional MOSFET theory
2 ID MOS Electrostatics
1.5 2D MOS Electrostatics
.5 Landauer approach to transport at the nanoscale
2 Transmission theory of the MOSFET
.5 MOSFET limits
1 HEMTs and BJTs
1 Compact models revisited
.5 Course summary

Assessment Method:

online quizzes and short quiz on each of the 5 units