EU Microelectronics devices - 4PUETMNA

Informations générales

  • Number of hours

    • Lectures 22.0
    • Projects 0
    • Tutorials 20.0
    • Internship 0
    • Laboratory works 4.0

    ECTS

    ECTS 4.0

Goal(s)

To understand :

  • the physical phenomena which appear in semiconductor materials and are used in microelectronic sensors or devices.
  • the physical models describing the operation of the most common devices used in today's microelectronics industry
    To learn some specific effects related to device size reduction.
Contact Thierry OUISSE, Nathalie MATHIEU

Content(s)

1st Part :
• Semiconductor elementary properties at equilibrium (structures, energy bands, electron and hole, doping)
• Weak perturbations of equilibrium : charge transport (conduction, carrier mobility ; diffusion)
• Poisson equation and consequences (Space Charge Region, potential barrier or well), examples : PN junction and metal semiconductor contact

2nd Part :
•Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor (MIS) structures; Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) capacitor, Charge-Coupled-Devices (CCD)
•Field-effect transistors (FETs) and Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor FETS (MOSFETs): behaviour, modelling, parameter extraction and measurements
•Basic notions about junction field effect transistors (JFETs) and Metal-Semiconductor FETs (MESFETs)
•P-N junction, ideal and practical devices
•P-N junction applications: Zener diode, IMPATT diode, PIN diode, photodiode and solar cells.



Prerequisites

Fundamentals of solid-state physics (energy bands)
Fermi-Dirac and Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics

Test

Written exam modalities :
no documents allowed, formula paper given with the exam, calculator needed

As the course is divided into two parts, the three-hour final written exam may be split into two written exams, each lasting one and a half hours



Additional Information

Course list
Curriculum->SEI->Semester 7

Bibliography

H. Mathieu : Physique des semiconducteurs et des composants électroniques
(5eme édition, Dunod, 2004) ISBN : 2-10-048633-0

A. Vapaille et R. Castagné : Dispositifs et circuits intégrés
(Dunod, 1987) ISBN : 2-04-019714-1

G. Streetman and S. Banerjee : Solid-state Electronic Devices
(6th Ed., Prentice Hall,2005) ISBN : 0-13-025538-6

S.M. SZE: Semiconductor devices : physics and technology international student version
(3rd Edition, Wiley, 2013) ISBN : 978-0-470-87367-0

S.M. SZE: Physics of semiconductor devices
(3rd Edition, 2007), ISBN : 0-471-14323-5