LESSON PLAN FOR SEMESTER COURSE xvi
Semiconductor Junctions: 3 lectures
©R Metal interconnects- Schottky Barrier Diode
- Ohmic contacts
©R Insulator semiconductor junctions- Semiconductor heterojunctions
Bipolar Junction Transistor- Steady State: 4 lectures
- Current voltage relations
- Device design and optimization
- Secondary effects in BJTs
- Heterojunction bipolar transistors
Bipolar Devices- Temporal Response: 4 lectures
- P-N diode: Small and large signal
- Schottky diode temporal response
- Bipolar transistor: Charge control model
- High frequency response of bipolar transistors
- Technology roadmap and device needs
Field Effects Transistors- MESFET and HFETs: 6 lectures
- JFET and MESFET: Charge control and current-voltage
- Charge control for MODFETs
- Polar HFETs: Charge Control
- HFET Design issues
- Temporal response and high power issues