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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 from diverse backgrounds including Chemical, Chemistry, Computer science, Electrical, Mechanical, Metallurgy, Materials, and Physics departments. Anyone interested in understanding how semiconductors work and how they form an integral part of today's electronic industry can take this course. The course provides the students with the basic physics of semiconductor materials. It also covers device fundamentals with emphasis on their electronic characteristics. Optical devices like LEDs, lasers, solar cells, and their properties will also be explained.


INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Preferable undergraduates and graduate students in Chemical, Chemistry, Computer science, Electrical, Mechanical, Metallurgy, Materials, and Physics. Working professionals in the electronics industry can also take this course.

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

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Semiconductor device companies like TSMC and Applied Materials will value this course.

COURSE TEXTBOOK: A textbook for this course has been published last year by Wiley. The book is called Semiconductor materials, devices, and fabrication. It is available online at popular portals such as Amazon and Flipkart. The book includes the material discussed in this course. It also contains information on device fabrication, which would be part of a separate MOOC to be introduced after this course. The video lectures from NPTEL are also included in two DVDs.   


Wiley link

1002 students have enrolled already!!

COURSE INSTRUCTOR :
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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. His research group is called the Electronic Materials and Thin Films group and they work in the area of printed electronics, development of metal and metal oxide nanoparticle inks, and thin film stabilization. His research page can be accessed at https://mme.iitm.ac.in/swamnthn


COURSE TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

Nitheesh P

Nitheesh M. Nair is an interdisciplinary doctoral scholar (PhD) in the Departments of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras. He received the B. Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M. Tech degree in VLSI and Embedded Systems Engineering. He has done courses on Electronic Materials, Devices and Fabrication, Semiconductor Device Modelling, and Solar cell Device Physics and Materials Technology. The broad area of his research is the field of printed electronic devices with emphasis on printed antennas and transparent conducting electrodes.


Vidyesh Madhyastha is a final year dual degree (B. Tech + M. Tech) student in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras. He has taken courses on Physics of Materials and Electronic Materials, Devices and Fabrication and has a minor in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. His broad research interests lie in the field of printed electronics and semiconductor nanomaterials. He is currently working on synthesizing and characterizing silver nano-inks with an objective to design and print antennas which can be used for practical applications.

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 for a fee.
  • Date and Time of Exams: April 28 (Saturday) and April 29 (Sunday) :  Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm
  • Exam for this course will be available in one session on both 28 and 29 April. 
  • 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 needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.

CERTIFICATE:

  • Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
  • 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of 8 weeks course: Best 6 out of 8 assignments
  • E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of NPTEL and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.