Courses

Solid State Electronics

EEE 435 - Microelectronics: Web
Introduces basic CMOS processing and fabrication tools. Covers the fundamentals of thermal oxidation, CVD, implantation, diffusion, and process integration. Fee. Internet lecture, internet or on-campus lab.

EEE 436 - Fundamentals of Solid-State Devices: Web
Semiconductor fundamentals, pn junctions, metal-semiconductor contacts, metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors and field-effect transistors, bipolar junction transistors.

EEE 437 - Optoelectronics
Basic operating principles of various types of optoelectronic devices which play important roles in commercial and communication electronics; light-emitting diodes, injection lasers, and photodetectors.

EEE 530 - Advanced Silicon Processing
Thin films, CVD, oxidation, diffusion, ion-implantation for VLSI, metallization, silicides, advanced lithography, dry etching, rapid thermal processing.

EEE 531 - Semiconductor Device Theory I
Transport and recombination theory, pn and Schottky barrier diodes, bipolar and junction field-effect transistors, and MOS capacitors and transistors.

EEE 532 - Semiconductor Device Theory II
Advanced MOSFETs, charge-coupled devices, solar cells, photodetectors, light-emitting diodes, microwave devices, and modulation-doped structures.

EEE 533 - Semiconductor Process/Device Simulation
Process simulation concepts, oxidation, ion implantation, diffusion, device simulation concepts, pn junctions, MOS devices, bipolar transistors.

EEE 534 - Semiconductor Transport
Carrier transport in semiconductors. Hall effect, high electric field, Boltzmann equation, correlation functions, and carrier-carrier interactions.

EEE 536 - Semiconductor Characterization
Measurement techniques for semiconductor materials and devices. Electrical, optical, physical, and chemical characterization methods.

EEE 537 - Semiconductor Optoelectronics I
Electronic states in semiconductors, quantum theory of radiation, absorption processes, radiative processes, nonradiative processes, photoluminescence, and photonic devices.

EEE 539 - Introduction to Solid-State Electronics
Crystal lattices, reciprocal lattices, quantum statistics, lattice dynamics, equilibrium, and nonequilibrium processes in semiconductors.

EEE 731 - Advanced MOS Devices
Threshold voltage, subthreshold current, scaling, small geometry effects, hot electrons, and alternative structures.