2.15 Semiconductor Devices in SPICE
The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis) electronic simulation program provides circuit elements...
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2.14 Quantum Devices
Most integrated circuits are digital, based on MOS (CMOS) transistors. Every couple of years since the late 1960’s a...
2.13 Superconducting Devices
Superconducting devices, though not widely used, have some unique characteristics not available in standard...
2.12 Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques
The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described in this section; most semiconductors are silicon....
2.11 Thyristors
Thyristors are a broad classification of bipolar-conducting semiconductor devices having four (or more) alternating...
2.10 Insulated-gate Field-effect Transistors (MOSFET)
The Insulated-Gate Field-Effect Transistor (IGFET), also known as the Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET), is...
2.9 Junction Field-effect Transistors
The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US patents in 1926 and 1933 (1,900,018). Moreover,...
2.8 Bipolar Junction Transistors
The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation involves conduction by two carriers: electrons...
2.7 Junction Diodes
There was some historic crude, but usable were some historic crude, but usable semiconductor rectifiers before high...
2.6 The P-N Junction
If a block of P-type semiconductor is placed in contact with a block of N-type semiconductor in Figure below(a), the...
2.5 Electrons and holes
Pure semiconductors are relatively good insulators as compared with metals, though not nearly as good as a true...
2.4 Band Theory of Solids
Quantum physics describes the states of electrons in an atom according to the four-fold scheme of quantum numbers. The...
2.3 Valence and Crystal Structure
Valence: The electrons in the outermost shell, or valence shell, are known as valence electrons. These valence...
2.2 Quantum Physics
“I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics.” —Physicist Richard P. Feynman To say that...
2.1 Introduction to Solid-state Device Theory
This chapter will cover the physics behind the operation of semiconductor devices and show how these principles are...
