Teaching
class notes, handouts, and related links
Fall 2009, ECE 440: Solid-State Electronic Devices
- Intro/Motivation, Crystal Lattices, Energy Bands: L1-L4
- Carrier Statistics, Drift and Diffusion: L5-L8, L9-L11, L12-L14
- M-S Junctions, MOS Capacitors & FETs: L15-L18, L19-L22, [MOS]
- Optical Generation/Recombination, P-N Junctions: L23-L25, L27-L29, L30-L33
- Photodiodes, Bipolar Transistors:
- Principles of Semiconductor Devices, a free online textbook by B. Van Zeghbroeck
- Sister courses: Berkeley EE130 (Prof. T.-J. King) and MIT 6.012 (Prof. J. del Alamo)
- Physical properties of silicon and other semiconductors
- Issue on scaling beyond Si CMOS in the IBM J. Res. Dev. (Aug 2006)
- Britney Spears' guide to semiconductor physics
- An online tutorial on solid crystal structures
Spring 2009, ECE
598EP: Hot
Chips: Atoms to Heat Sinks
- This course pursues a parallel treatment of electrical and thermal issues in modern nanoelectronics, from fundamentals to system-level issues. Topics include energy transfer by electrons and phonons, mobility and thermal conductivity, power dissipation in modern devices (CMOS, nanowires, nanotubes, phase-change memory), circuit leakage, thermal breakdown, system-level issues, thermometry, and heat sinks. Grading is based on homeworks, Wikipedia assignments, a final group paper, and oral presentations.
- Syllabus (2009) and Course ad (2008)
- Student rating: teaching effectiveness 4.8 out of 5.0
- Intro/motivation: L1L2
- Electron and phonon heat capacity, thermal conductivity: L3L4, L5L6L7
- Refs: Debye (1912), Re:Debye (1980), Hall Re:Sommerfeld (1928), Blotekjaer (1970), Olson (1993), Srivastava (2001), Holland (1963), Glassbrenner (1964), Klemens (1993)
- Low-dimensional and boundary effects, Landauer conductance: L8L9, L10, L10supp, L11 (Cahill), L12L13
- Refs: Goodson (1999), Swartz (1989), Li (2003), Dames (2004), Schwab (2000), Charlier (2007), Buttiker (1985), Kane (1961)
- Power, leakage, and temperature in electron devices: L14L15, L16L17
- Refs: Wachutka (1990), Lindefelt (1994), Pop (2005), Tomizawa (1993), Ouyang (2006), Lake (1992), Segal (2002), Roy/Prasad (2000), Zhai (2005), Hanson & Haensch (2006)
- Device, interconnect, package heat transfer: L18L19, L20L21
- Refs: Sunderland (1964), Mautry (1990), Su (1995), Lienhard (2008), Dwyer (1990), Clemente (1993), Rinaldi (2001), Kumar (2005), Pedram (2006), Prasher (2006), Mahajan (2006)
- Final project resources: IEDM format, Sample IEDM paper (Pop), Paper-writing tips (Senturia)
- Student Wikipedia contributions (2009): IC Cooling, Carrier Scattering, Ballistic Conduction, Thermal Properties of Nanostructures, Interfacial Thermal Resistance, Semiconductor Carrier Mobility
Fall 2008, ECE 440: Solid-State Electronic Devices
- Student rating: teaching effectiveness 4.8 out of 5.0
- For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above
Spring 2008, ECE 598EP: Hot Chips: Atoms to Heat Sinks
- First time this new course was offered
- For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above
Fall 2007, ECE 440: Solid-State Electronic Devices
- Student rating: teaching effectiveness 4.9 out of 5.0
- Student comments: "Best ECE professor I have had thus far," "Lecture notes work well with the textbook," "Very clear explanations," "Handouts are great," "Lots of real world examples," "Very able and willing to answer student questions," "Metaphors help clarify things better"
- For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above
updated Aug 2009