MAT ENG 7107 - Engineering Solid-State Devices

The objective of the course will be to introduce fundamental and applied principles of advanced semiconductor materials. This will include; An introduction to Quantum Physics for semiconductors; An introduction to the Physics of Semiconductors; An introduction to the Physics of PN-junctions, PNP-junctions and NPN-junctions. A good background on the significance of the Complementary-Metal-Oxide Semiconductors (CMOS) technologies and of several transistors geometries are discussed in the lectures; A discussion on the limitations, advantages and problems of several semiconductor technologies is also carried out during the lectures. An introduction to more complicated CMOS devices; and Next-generation of semiconductors devices such as Coulomb Blockade devices concludes the semiconductor devices section of the course. The final set of lectures does focus on the techniques for the Synthesis of Semiconductors; Wafer Preparation Methods; Characterisation of Semiconductors. conventional and state-of-the-art fabrication techniques, and chemical and physical properties of semiconductor materials.