ECE 448 - Transistors

Description: Credit 3U/4G. Bipolar junction transistors, electronic processes in surface-controlled semiconductor and dielectric devices. Metal oxide semiconductor filed effect transistors, surface and interface effects, diode lasers, integrated optoelectronic devices.

Prerequisite: ECE 346 

Recent Textbooks: Solid State Electronic Devices, 4th edition, Prentice-Hall 

Topics: 

1. Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs):Fundamental

2. Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs):Static characteristics

3. Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs):Dynamic response modeling

4. Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs):PNPN devices

5. MS contacts and Schottky diodes

6. Field-effect transistors (FETs):Fundamentals

7. Field-effect transistors (FETs):J-FETs and MESFETs

8. Field-effect transistors (FETs):MOS Fundamentals

9. Field-effect transistors (FETs):MOSFETs

10. Optoelectronic devices:Diodes, lasers, integrated optoelectronic devices