The special properties of
semiconductors, and the devices they enable, are revolutionizing the
world we live in.
People who work with, or our affected by, high technology need to have a
basic understanding of how semiconductor devices work.
The good news is that semiconductors and semiconductor devices
are easy to understand. We have
developed a new approach, Only Two Things™, that focuses on the showing
how the simple basics of semiconductors can be combined to produce a
wide range of useful electronic and optoelectronic devices.
The goal is to provide a robust, intuitive understanding that
will enable students to understand current devices, resolve problems and
develop new devices and applications.
All semiconductor devices involve electrically controlling
currents. Electric currents
require Only Two
Things™: mobile charges and motion of those charges in one direction.
This begs two questions.
Where do charges come from in semiconductors and how do they move?
Fortunately, there are only a few simple answers to each
question, mobile charges are produced by generation, doping and charge
injection and they move by drift and diffusion.
Like all Quick Start Micro Training courses, this seminar
presents the most important information in an efficient,
easy-to-understand and entertaining manner.
Dr. Dellin has over 25 years experience in microelectronics and
microsystems. He is the Chief
Scientist Emeritus of the Microsystems Center at Sandia and leads the
development of the reliability section of the International Technology
Roadmap for Semiconductors. He
has 10 years experience in teaching including developing Sandia’s
in-house microsytems university, university teaching, 4 tutorials at
IRPS and presenting short courses for organizations in the U.S. and
Europe. The response of past students to our courses has generally been
very favorable.
This course is designed for engineers, scientists, managers,
sales people and sponsors of programs in both
commercial industry and in government.
No prior knowledge is assumed.
Even people who have taken device courses before, but never
really understood what was going on, will profit from this class
COURSE OUTLINE
(Subject to continuous improvement)
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•MOS Capacitor (inversion, threshold voltage)
MOS Transistor (linear, saturation, back gate bias)
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Non ideal Effects in Submicron MOS (subthreshold, short channel, mobility degradation, velocity saturation, tunneling)
Floating Gate Nonvolatile Transistors