Educational guide 2017_18 School of Engineering

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Introduction	1.1 Electrostatics and charge transport in semiconductors 1.2 TCAD simulation. Introduction to Atlas 1.3 Electron Device Automation tools. Introduction to device model coding in Verilog-A
2.Nanoscale MOSFET structures	2.1. Short channel effects in MOSFETs 2.2. Nanoscale bulk MOSFETs MOSFETs 2.3 SOI MOSFETs 2.4 FinFETs and Multi-Gate MOSFETs
3.Advanced power semiconductor devices	3.1 Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBT) 3.2. Power MOSFETs
4. Compound semiconductor devices	4.1. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBTs) 4.2. Advanced MESFET and HEMT structures. GaAs and GaN devices.
5. Thin-Film Transistors (TFTs)	5.1 Amorphous Silicon TFTs 5.2. Polycrystalline Silicon TFTs 5.3. Organic TFTs 5.4. Oxide TFTs
6.Post-CMOS devices	6.1. Tunnel FETs 6.2. Single- Electron Transistor 6.3. Carbon nanotubes and graphene transistors