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Microelectronic Devices and Circuits

Subject: Engineering

Art: not stated, Fletcher's Combined Block Telegraph Apparatus and Bell, 1889 · Public domain

Instructors: Prof. Charles Sodini, Prof. Jing Kong, Prof. Judy Hoyt, Prof. Jesús del Alamo, Prof. Akintunde (Tayo) Akinwande
Term: Spring 2009
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 85 other files · 6 web pages
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Lecture 1: 6.012 outline: grading, ethics Overview of semiconductor applications, silicon integrated circuit technology

Lecture 2: Intrinsic semiconductors, electrons and holes, bond model, generation recombination and thermal equilibrium; doping, donors, acceptors, compensation

Lecture 3: Carrier transport, drift velocity, drift current density, diffusion current density

Lecture 4: The p-n junction, carrier concentration and potential in thermal equilibrium, 60mV rule

Lecture 5: The p-n junction in thermal equilibrium

Lecture 6: Introduction to the MOS structure, MOS capacitor in thermal equilibrium

Lecture 7: MOS capacitor under applied bias; accumulation, depletion, and inversion regions

Lecture 8: MOSFET physical structure, circuit symbol and terminal characteristics, MOS transistor characteristics

Lecture 9: MOS transistor, backgate effect, MOSFET in saturation

Lecture 10: MOSFET small-signal model

Lecture 11: Digital logic concepts, inverter characteristics, logic levels and noise margins, transient characteristics, inverter circuits, NMOS/resistor loads

Lecture 12: NMOS/current source load, CMOS inverter, static analysis

Lecture 13: CMOS inverter, propagation delay model, static CMOS gates

Lecture 14: p-n junction diode terminal characteristics, minority carrier concentration under forward and reverse bias

Lecture 15: Short base approximation, steady state diffusion equation with currents in p-n junction

Lecture 16: p-n junction diode circuit model, large signal static model, small signal model, diffusion capacitance

Lecture 17: Introduction of bipolar junction transistor, terminal characteristics, forward active bias, current gain

Lecture 18: Reverse active mode and saturation, the Ebers-Moll model

Lecture 19: Single stage amplifiers, two port small signal model, common source amplifier with resistor and current source supply

Lecture 20: Common base/gate amplifier, common collector/drain

Lecture 21: Review frequency domain analysis; current gain frequency response of common emitter amplifier

Lecture 22: Voltage gain frequency response of common emitter amplifier, full analysis of common emitter, the Miller approximation

Lecture 23: Open circuit time constant analysis, common-gate (CG) and common-drain (CD) amplifiers

Lecture 24: Multistage amplifiers, cascading small signal two port models

Lecture 25: DC coupling, voltage sources, MOS current sources, current sources and sinks

Lecture 26: Analyzing complex circuits, course wrap-up