This online course has been running for the last three years (since 2016). It's primary aim is to provide a basic understanding of the materials and
devices used in the current semiconductor industry. The course is designed for undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds. 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. Opto-electronic devices such as 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: NA.
INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Students aiming to join semiconductor and electronic device companies 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.
1649 students have enrolled already!!
COURSE INSTRUCTOR
:
Prof. Parasuraman Swaminathan
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (MME), IIT
Madras. He joined the institute in 2013. He has a B. Tech and M. Tech dual degree in
MME 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 and thin film deposition. His research page can be
accessed at https://mme.iitm.ac.in/swamnthn. Dr. Parasuraman has been offering this online course since 2016. He has published a textbook in this topic.
COURSE TEACHING ASSISTANT:
Harish K is a dual degree 5th year 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, Quantum Computation and Quantum Informationand has a minor in physics. His broad research interests lie in the field of semiconductor physics and device fabrication, with a passion for quantum mechanics. He is currently working on synthesizing and formulating aluminium doped zinc oxide inks to print passive devices and also for application as a transparent conducting oxide.
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 weeks 4 & 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 of Exam: April 28th 2019 (Sunday).
Time of Exam: Morning session 9am to 2 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm
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.
CERTIFICATION:
Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of 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 IIT Madras. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
ASSIGNMENT AND EXAM INFO:
All Assignments will be multiple choice questions (MCQs).
There will one assignment each week. Best 6 of 8 assignments will be considered for the final evaluation.
The final examination will also be only MCQs. More details on the exam format will be published after the course start date.
