ECE 440 - Solid State Electronic Devices

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Section Type Times Days Location Instructor
D DIS 1100 - 1150 M W F   101 Transportation Building  Gang Liu
E DIS 1300 - 1350 M W F   163 Everitt Lab  Eric Pop
G DIS 1500 - 1550 M W F   163 Everitt Lab  Matthew Gilbert
X DIS 1200 - 1250 M W F   163 Everitt Lab  Kuang-Chien Hsieh

Web Page http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece440/
Official Description Semiconductor materials and their electronic properties and applications to electronic devices; p-n junctions; transistors; junction field effect transistors and MOS devices; introduction to integrated circuits. Credit is not given toward graduate degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prerequisite: PHYS 214; credit or concurrent registration in ECE 329.
Hours 3 hours.
Subject Area Microelectronics and Quantum Electronics
Course Prerequisites Credit in PHYS 214
Credit or concurrent registration in ECE 329
Course Directors Kuang-Chien Hsieh
Description Semiconductor materials and their electronic properties and applications to electronic devices; p-n junctions; bipolar junction transistors; field effect transistors and MOS devices; and introduction to optoelectronics.
Credit 3 hours
Goals The goals of the course are to provide the student with a basic background on semiconductor materials and semiconductor physics and an understanding of what the semiconductor devices, p-n junctions, Schottky barrier diodes, bipolar transistors, and field effects transistors are, how they work, and how they are used in electrical and computer engineering applications.
Topics
  • Semiconductor structure
  • Electrons and holes, energy bands
  • Carrier motion, drift, diffusion recombination
  • P-N junctions
  • Metal/semiconductor devices
  • Bipolar junction transistors
  • Metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) capacitors and field effect transistors
  • Optoelectronic devices (solar cells, photodiode, semiconductor lasers)
Course Prerequisites PYHS 214; and credit or concurrent registration in ECE 329.
Texts B. G. Streetman, Solid State Electronic Devices, 6th ed., Prentice-Hall.
ABET Category Engineering Science: 100%