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Advanced Semiconductor Devices

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The course aims to: ⁻ Provide students with foundational background, theories, and mechanism of operation of principle and advanced semiconductor devices with emphasis on physical concepts. ⁻ Develop the student skills in modeling and characterization of semiconductor devices. ⁻ Provide students with good understanding of the link between device physics and circuit design by introducing to them design parameters, performance parameters, CAD models, and device scaling theory, etc.
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Requirements

PHM224s

Description

  • English Description

    Semiconductors review, Theory of junctions and interfaces: p-n and metal-semiconductor junctions, Oxide-semiconductor and heterojunction interfaces, Principles of bipolar transistor operation, Field effect devices: MESFET and MOSFET, Downscaling principles and Submicron devices, TFET transistors, SOI transistors, Vertical Transistors: FinFET and Surround gate FET
  • Arabic Description

    Semiconductors review, Theory of junctions and interfaces: p-n and metal-semiconductor junctions, Oxide-semiconductor and heterojunction interfaces, Principles of bipolar transistor operation, Field effect devices: MESFET and MOSFET, Downscaling principles and Submicron devices, TFET transistors, SOI transistors, Vertical Transistors: FinFET and Surround gate FET
  • Department
    Electronics and Communications Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Student Activities (30 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 5% , tr.Seminar 25% ) + Exam Grade (50)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 1, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    100
  • Equivalent ECTS
    4
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  • ‐ Semiconductors Physics and Devices Basic principles - by Donald A. Neaman, 3rd edition, Mc Graw Hill
  • ‐ S. O. Kasap, Principles of Electronic Materials and Devices, 3rd Edition, McGraw Hill 2006.
  • ‐ S.M. Sze, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, 2nd Edition, Wiley-Interscience, 1981.
  • ‐ Transactions of IEEE Electron Devices, EKB: https://mplbci.ekb.eg - B. G. Streetman, S. K. Banerjee, Solid State Electronic Devices, 7th Edition, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 2016.