Electronics and Microelectronics

Topic outline

• AE4B34EM - Electronics and Microelectronics
  

  AE4B34EM - Electronics and Microelectronics

  Semiconductors fundamentals, PN junction. Bipolar transistor, MOSFET structure. Fundamentals of Integrated systems processing technologies. CMOS technology, layout design, design rules. Analogue CMOS integrated circuits blocks, AD and DA convertors. Memory structures. Micro-electro-mechanical systems. Optoelectronics devices. 
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• Lectures
  

  Lectures

  1. Introduction and History of electronic and microelectronic *** lecture download ***
  
  History of modern Electronics and description of Moore's law is in the article on wikipedia.
  
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  2. Basic concepts, resistors, capacitors, inductors  *** lecture download ***
  
  Recomended reading:
  Resistors
  Capacitors
  Inductors
  
  3. Semiconductors fundamentals, PN  *** lecture download ***
  
  Recomended reading:
  Semiconductors
  PN junction
  Semiconductor diode
  Rectrifiers

   

  4. Diodes, rectifiers *** lecture download ***
  
  5. Bipolar transistor theory *** lecture download ***
  
  Recomended reading:
  Bipolar junction transistor
  
  6. Bipolar transistor - Applications *** lecture download ***
  
  Recomended reading:
  Common emitter
  Common base
  Common collector
  
  7. MOSFET transistor - theory  *** lecture download ***
  
  Recomended reading:
  Field effect transistor
  JFET
  MOSFET
  
  8. MOSFET transistor - Application *** lecture download ***
  
  Recomended reading:

  Common-source amplifier
  common-drain amplifier or a source follower
  common-gate amplifier
  
  9. Advanced IC process technology  *** lecture download ***
  
  Recomended reading:

  Semiconductor device fabrication
  
  Films:
  A short film about the technology process: 45nm Intel
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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  10. Advanced IC process technology II  *** lecture download ***
  
  Recommended reading:

  Photolithography

  Ion implantation (in which dopants are embedded in the wafer creating regions of increased (or decreased) conductivity)

  Dry etching

  Wet etching

  Plasma ashing

  Thermal oxidation

  Chemical vapor deposition (CVD)

  Physical vapor deposition (PVD)

  Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)

  
  A short film about the production process:
  

  
  

  
  
  Study material for Silicon on insulator technology.
  Strained silicon
  
  11. CMOS process technology *** lecture download ***
  
  Recomended reading:
  
  Study material describing the design methodology for analog and digital circuits are here .
  
  12. Logic gates  *** lecture download ***

  13. Logic gates  *** lecture download ***

  
  14. IC fabrication process trends  *** lecture download ***
  
  
  
  
• Training courses
  

  Training courses

  • 1. Introduction to electronics

    • CADENCE software basics
    • Schematic editor and simulation profile
    • Simulation types
  • Basic Electronics eBook URL
  • Electronics Engineering Books URL
  • Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering eBook URL
  • Fundamentals of Microelectronics (ebookbrowse) File
  • Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory (ebookbrowse) File
  • 2. Passive devices

    • RC circuit simulations (charging of a capacitor, parametric analysis)
    • Thevenin's Law application (voltage divider with model of PN diode)
  • 3. Semiconductor basics

    • Cariers in intrinsic semiconductor at thermal equilibrium, concentrations
    • Inpurities and dopands effect at concentration
    • Conductivity
    • Carriers mobility

    Videos:

    Semiconductors: 3D Animation
    The PN Junction. How Diodes Work?
    How Does a Diode Work? Intro to Semiconductors (p-n Junctions in the Hood)

  • 3. Ohm's Law
        Power Sources (ideal vs. real)

  • 4. PN junction

    • diode - operating point
    • BJT CV characteristics
  • 5. BJT 

    • Operating point setting
    • Operating point stabilization
    • Amplifiers
  • 6. BJT applications

    • OP setting
    • BJT based amplifier
• Assignments
  

  Assignments
• Wiki
  

  Wiki
• Literature
  

  Literature

  1. P. Gray, P Hurst, S. Lewis, R. Mayer: "Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits", John Wiley and Sons, 2000