EE130/230A Homework Assignments
Fall 2013
(Word format)
Homework #1: Moore's Law; basic units and elements; Miller indices and Si crystal structure; intrinsic semiconductor
Assignment (due 9/5/13)
Homework #2: Semiconductor doping; electron and hole concentrations; carrier distributions; energy band diagram
Assignment (updated 9/3/13, due 9/12/13)
Homework #3: Carrier mobility; carrier drift; non-uniformly doped semiconductor; generation and recombination
Assignment (due 9/19/13)
Homework #4: Continuity equation and quasi-Fermi levels. Metal-semiconductor contacts: energy band diagrams, electrostatics and small-signal capacitance.
Assignment (due 9/26/13)
Homework #5: Schottky diode I-V; practical ohmic contact; contact resistance; pn junction electrostatics.
Assignment (due 10/3/13)
Homework #6: pn Junction: carrier concentration and current component profiles; I-V characteristics; narrow-base diode; reverse breakdown.
Assignment (due 10/10/13)
Homework #7: pn Junction: non-ideal behavior, charge-control model, small-signal model, transient response.
Assignment (due 10/17/13)
Homework #8: p-i-n photodiode; light-emitting diodes; solar cell design; MOS capacitor energy band diagrams.
Assignment (due 10/24/13)
Homework #9: MOS capacitor: areal charge density; threshold voltage; C-V characteristic
Assignment (due 10/31/13)
Homework #10: MOS capacitor non-idealities; MOSFET operation; MOSFET as a resistor; MOS threshold voltage adjustment.
Assignment (due 11/7/13)
Homework #11: Long-channel MOSFET I-V, small-signal model, sub-threshold current. Design project preparation.
Assignment (due 11/14/13)
Homework #12: MOSFET velocity saturation, short-channel effect, retrograde channel doping, source/drain structure.
Assignment (due 11/21/13)
Homework #13: Advanced MOSFET structures; qualitative BJT questions.
Assignment (due 11/26/13)
Homework #14: BJT current components and output characteristics, Ebers-Moll model.
Assignment (due 12/5/13)
Homework #15: BJT: deviations from the ideal; Gummel plot; small-signal model; base transit time and BJT transient response.
Assignment (due 12/12/13)

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