- Introduction to semiconductors, doping, generation/recombination, TE carrier concentrations, and carrier dynamics.
- Excess populations, minimum carrier lifetime, photoconductivity, and non-uniform concentrations and diffusion.
- The five basic equations, device structures in TE, carriers, electrostatic potential, and Poisson's equation (PE).
- P-n junctions in thermal equilibrium and under reverse bias, the depletion approximation (DA), and comparison to PE solution.
- Review of reverse biased junctions, forward bias, and minority carrier injection into quasineutral regions.
- Forward biased p-n junctions, carrier injection, i-v characteristics, and engineering carrier injection.
- Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs): two coupled diodes, terminal characteristics, and regions of operation.
- Solar cells and LEDs (light emitting diodes).
- MOS capacitors: DA applied to two-terminal MOS capacitor accumulation, depletion, and inversion; VFB, VT, QA, and QN.
- The three-terminal MOS capacitor, MOSFETs, gradual channel approximation (GCA), and ignoring subthreshold carriers.
- Complete GC/DA model for iDS, saturation, channel length modulation, and output characteristics; regions of operation.
- Subthreshold operation of MOSFETs, model development, comparison to full numerical solution, and comparison with BJTs.
- Linear equivalent circuits for MOSFETs and BJTs at low and high frequency; transconductance of subthreshold MOSFETs.
- Logic inverter basics, introduction to CMOS: transfer characteristics, noise margins, optimal device sizing.
- CMOS analysis, continued: switching delays, power dissipation, speed/power trade-offs.
- CMOS analysis, continued: subthreshold leakage, scaling rules, and future trends.
- Linear amplifier basics: performance metrics, current source biasing, current mirrors, mid-band range, two-port representation.
- Single-transistor building block stages: common-source, common-gate, and common-drain (follower) stages; characteristics and features.
- Differential amplifiers: large signal transfer characteristics; small signal analysis using common- and difference-mode inputs.
- Multi-stage amplifiers I: cascading diff stages; current source biasing; output stages.
- Multi-stage amplifiers II: active loads, biasing for maximum gain, input and output swings.
- Multi-stage amplifiers III: examples, stage selection, specialty stages, looking at a commercial op-amp schematic. Begin frequency response.
- Frequency response of CS amplifiers, the Miller effect, intrinsic frequency limitations of MOSFETs, biasing to maximize speed, power trade-off.
- OCTC method for estimating frequency response, subthreshold amplifiers for ultra-lower power electronics, frequency performance.
- MOS imagers,
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