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Fundamentals of electronic materials and devices

ABOUT THE COURSE
 The course is intended to provide an understanding of the materials and devices used in the current semiconductor industry. It caters to undergraduate and graduate students with a diverse background in Chemical, Mechanical, Metallurgy, Materials Science, and Physics. The course provides the students with the basic physics behind semiconductor materials, types of semiconductors, and the reason for the dominance of silicon in the electronics industry. The course also covers the basics of devices with emphasis on their electronic characteristics. Optical devices like LEDs, lasers, solar cells, and their properties will also be explained.

INTENDED AUDIENCE
 Preferable 3rd and final year undergraduates and first year graduates in Chemical, Mechanical, Metallurgy, Materials Science, and Physics.

PRE-REQUISITES
 Preferably completed Physics of Materials or Solid state physics course but not required.

INDUSTRIES THAT WILL VALUE THIS
 Semiconductor device companies like TSMC and Applied Materials will value this course

3921 students have enrolled already!!

COURSE INSTRUCTOR



Prof. Parasuraman Swaminathan joined the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras, in 2013. He has a B. Tech and M. Tech dual degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from IIT Madras, and a PhD in Materials Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He then did a post doc in Johns Hopkins University and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA on microelectronics device fabrication. He also worked in Intel Corp. for two years, primarily in their development fab facility. In IIT, Parasuraman and his group work on printed electronics, doped metal oxides, and vapor deposited thin films and nanoparticles.


COURSE TEACHING ASSISTANT
Srinivas Karthik

Srinivas Karthik is a final year B. Tech and M. Tech dual degree student in the Deptartment of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras. His minor stream specialization is in Microelectronics and his interest is in the field of solar cells. He is currently working on a metal insulator semiconductor junction solar cell for his Masters research project.    
COURSE LAYOUT

 Week 1 – Introduction, Energy bands in solids, Semiconductors band gap formation
Week 2 – Problem set on week #1 and Intrinsic semiconductors.
Week 3 – Extrinsic semiconductors, Fermi level variations, and conductivity.
Week 4 – Problem set on week #3. Metal-semiconductor junctions and Introduction to pn junctions
Week 5 – pn junctions under bias, Junction breakdown, and Heterojunctions. Problem set on week#4 and 5.
Week 6 – Transistors, Types of transistors, MOSFETs, Problem set on week#6.
Week 7 – Optoelectronic devices – Introduction. LEDs and Lasers.
Week 8 – Photo detectors and solar cells. Problem set on opto electronic devices, week #7 and 8.

Certification Exam

The exam is optional. Exams will be on 20 March 2016 and 27 March 2016.
Time: 2pm-5pm

Tentative list of exam cities: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/pdf/Exam%20City-list.pdf

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000 needs to be paid.


Grading

There will be weekly assignment - total of 7. Out of this best of 5 will be considered for evaluation. These assignments will be a mixture of multiple choice questions and fill in the blanks, including short numerical questions.

The assignments will count towards 50% of the final marks.

The other 50% will come from the final certification exam, which will be of 3 hours duration and include multiple choice questions and fill in the blanks, including numerical questions. 


Certificate

Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam.

It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.


LIST OF REFERENCE MATERIALS AND BOOKS

Course notes will be available along with the individual videos. Apart from these the following reference books will also be useful.

 1. Principles of Electronic Materials and Devices, S.O. Kasap, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill Education (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2007.
2. Semiconductor devices: Physics and Technology, S.M. Sze, 2nd edition, Wiley, 2008.
3. Solid State Electronic Devices, B.G. Streetman and S. Banerjee, 6th edition, PHI Learning, 2009.
4. Introduction to solid state physics, C. Kittel, 8th edition, Wiley, 2012.