Course 12. High Speed Semiconductor Devices (Web Course)

Faculty Coordinator(s) :

1. Prof. Anjan Kumar Ghosh

Department of Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Kanpur - 208016

Email : anjn@iitk.ac.in

Telephone : (91-512) Off : 2597105

Res : 2598420

Detailed Syllabus : 1. Introduction - need for high speed devices and circuits 2. High Speed = Short transit time 3. Short Review of Quantum theory, Bohr theory of atoms, quantum mechanics' postulates 4. Quantum mechanical understanding of a particle in potential wells 5. Block theorem and Kroeing Penney model of periodic potential wells, energy band theory of solids 6. E-K diagrams, Brillonim zones, idea of Holes and effective mass 7. Mobility of carriers, intervalley electron transfer or Gunn effect, Ballisti transport 8. Density of states in energy bonds and carrier statistics 9. Generation - Recombination process 10. Diffusion and carrier transport 11. Basic theory of p-n junction diodes, transient response of diodes 12. Varactor Diodes, PIN diodes 13. Schottky barrier diodes, IMPATT diodes 14. MESFETs 15. MBE & MOCVD for fabricating compound semiconductor devices 16. HBT and HEMT

17. Scattering Parameters and 2 port circuits, S parameter measurement, Smith

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18. Resonators and oscillators, Amplifiers

19. Mixers, Detectors, Optical receiver design.