Topics

Review

• Semiconductors - basic properties
• Heterojunctions (maybe not review)
• Effective mass
• direct / indirect bandgap
• electron / hole statistics
• electron / drift current
• recombination / generation

Junctions

• p-n junction : electrostatics
• p-n junction : current-voltage relation
• non-ideal effects
• small-signal analysis
• transient effects
• Schottky barriers
• heterojunctions
• breakdown

BJTs

• forward active operation
• BJT : saturation
• the Gummel number for non-uniform doping
• the Early effect
• parasitic capacitances
• small-signal, high-frequency analysis
• large-signal switching
• circuit models
• heterojunction BJTs

FETs

• intro
• JFET
• MOS cap : electrostatics
• Band-bending theory
• NMOS threshold
• Simple MOS current-voltage curve
• NMOS : quantitative treatments
• scaling and deep sub-micron effects
• CMOS
• quantum well devices
• GaN transistors