APh/EE 9 ab. Solid-State Electronics for Integrated Circuits.
6 units (2-2-2); first, second terms; six units credit for the freshman laboratory requirement. Prerequisite: successful completion of APh/EE 9a is a prerequisite for enrollment in APh/EE 9b.
Introduction to solid-state electronics, including physical modeling and device fabrication. Topics: semiconductor crystal growth and device fabrication technology, carrier modeling, doping, generation and recombination, pn junction diodes, MOS capacitor and MOS transistor operation, and deviations from ideal behavior. Laboratory includes computer-aided layout, and fabrication and testing of light-emitting diodes, transistors, and inverters. Students learn photolithography, and use of vacuum systems, furnaces, and device-testing equipment.
EE/APh 180. Solid-State Devices. 9 units (3-0-6); second term. Prerequisite: EE 20 ab.
Starting with the phenomenological statementof physical processes, the operation of a device is derived from fundamental principles and the device’s materials and design.
Subjects include the motion of charge carriers in solids, equilibrium statistics, the electronic structure of solids, doping, nonequilibrium states, the pn junction, the junction transistor, the Schottky diode, the field-effect transistor, the light-emitting diode, and the photodiode.
APh 77 bc. Laboratory in Applied Physics. 9 units; second, third terms.
Selected experiments chosen to familiarize students with laboratory equipment, procedures, and characteristic phenomena in plasmas, fluid turbulence, fiber optics, X-ray diffraction, microwaves, high-temperature superconductivity, black-body radiation, holography, and computer interfacing of experiments.