ELEC 315

Electrical Engineering
Materials and Devices
Fundamentals Underlying the
Operation of Electronic Materials
and Devices
Instructor: Dr. John Madden, jmadden@ece.ubc.ca
AMPEL 341 (lab), Kaiser 3042 (office)
Office Hours: to be arranged
Intro 1
 The Ages

Golden
Bronze
Iron
Silicon
Organic?
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Science + Materials
+ Imagination
+Fabrication

= Devices

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 Magnetic

Dielectric
Metallic Semiconductor +
Metal + dielectric
45 nm
Intro
intel.com 4
Optical Fibre
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 Magneto-resistive
Materials in the read head

Copper Coils
For Driving
Head
Ferromagnetic
Bit Storage

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 Course Topics
Metals and Semiconductors
Quantum mechanics, free electron gas, band
structure, PN junctions, applications (LED, solar
cell, transistors preparation for ELEC 415).
Dielectrics
Maxwells equations in matter, origin of
polarization, frequency dependence,
piezoelectrics, ferroelectrics, applications.
Magnetics
Magnetization, NMR/MRI, ferromagnetism,
magnetoresistance and memory.
Emerging Electronic Materials
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 Some Questions
Why are some materials good conductors?
What determines whether materials are
conductors, semiconductors or insulators?
Why are PN junctions formed?
Why are some materials transparent to light, and
what determines index of refraction?
How do crystal oscillators work?
What makes a material magnetic?
Why do magnets exhibit hysteresis?
What type of magnet should be used in an
inductor? In a DC motor?
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The Future??

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Intel Fab 32, 45 nm : 9 Billion

Newspaper Press

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 Clock Speed

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http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/21/the_mother_of_all_cpu_charts_2005/
 Limits
Frequency
Device Density

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To go beyond silicon:
1.Small
(Molecular Scale)
2. Three
Dimensional
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Courtesy of Dr. D.L. Pulfrey
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Courtesy of Dr. D.L. Pulfrey
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Courtesy of Dr. D.L. Pulfrey
Ubiquitous Electronics?

Every living organism has built in

intelligence why not every one
of our devices?

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 ORGANIC/POLYMER DEVICES Kodak Organic LED

Phillips OLED

Flex
Drain Organic Semiconductor
Insulator
Source
Circuit
Gate

Bottom Contacts OFET

Transistor Intro 21
 Persistent Change:

Therefore: Emphasize
basics.
Quantum Mechanics
Maxwells Equations
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 Beyond Electronics

Energy Storage (Dielectrics,

Capacitors)
Electric Motors (Magnets)
Nanomotion (Piezoelectrics)

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 Course Basics
Lectures 4 hours per week
2 midterms (30 %), 1 final exam (50 %)
Assignments (10 %).
Participation (10 %) Clicker based +
reading quizzes
Connect course (lecture notes will appear
there and assignments)

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 Topics and Text
Diodes (quantum, solid state, conduction,
semiconductors);
Capacitors (dielectrics);
Oscillators (piezoelectrics);
Motors/Inductors (magnetic materials)

Text: Will send out some reading.

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