Course 15. Solid State Devices (Video Course) Faculty Coordinator(s) : 1. Prof. S.

Karmalkar Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai Email: karmal@ee.iitm.ernet.in Telephone: (91-44) 2257 4409 (Office) (91-44) 2257 6409 (Residence) TOPIC Introduction Evolution and uniqueness of Semiconductor Technology Equilibrium carrier concentration Thermal Equilibrium and wave particle duality Intrinsic semiconductor Bond and band models Extrinsic semiconductor Bond and band models Carrier transport Random motion Drift and diffusion Excess carriers Injection level Lifetime Direct and indirect semiconductors Procedure for analyzing semiconductor devices Basic equations and approximations P-N Junction Device structure and fabrication Equilibrium picture DC forward and reverse characteristics Small-signal equivalent circuit Switching characteristics Solar cell No. of lectures 1 1 5

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P-N Junction Device structure and fabrication Equilibrium picture DC forward and reverse characteristics Small-signal equivalent circuit Switching characteristics Solar cell Bipolar Junction Transistor History Device structures and fabrication Transistor action and amplification Common emitter DC characteristics Small-signal Equivalent circuit Ebers-Moll model SPICE model

MOS Junction C-V characteristics, threshold voltage, body effect Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistor History Device structures and fabrication Common source DC characteristics Small-signal equivalent circuit SPICE level-1 model Differences between a MOSFET and a BJT Junction FET and MESFET Recent Developments Heterojunction FET Hetrojunction bipolar transistor Summary Total number of lectures

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