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NPTEL

Electronic Materials, Devices, and Fabrication

NPTEL and Indian Institute of Technology Madras via YouTube

Overview

Instructor: Prof. S. Parasuraman, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras.

This course is designed to develop an understanding of the materials, devices, and processing techniques used in the current semiconductor industry. 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, will also be explained. The current manufacturing processes in the silicon-based semiconductor industry, starting from silicon wafer production to final IC (integrated circuit) development, will be explained.

Syllabus

Electronic Materials.
Worked numericals on week 1 lessons.
Optional - worked assignment on intrinsic semiconductors.
Semiconductors: Introduction.
Junction breakdown and heterojunctions.
Electron statistics in a solid.
Worked assignment on extrinsic semiconductors.
Intrinsic semiconductors.
Optional - worked assignment on metal-semiconductor junctions.
Intrinsic semiconductors - conductivity.
Worked assignment on pn junctions.
Extrinsic semiconductors: Introduction.
Worked assignment on transistors.
Extrinsic semiconductors - Fermi level.
Optional - worked assignment on optical properties.
Extrinsic semiconductors - mobility.
Worked assignment on optoelectronic devices.
Metal-semiconductor junctions.
pn junctions in equilibrium.
pn junctions under bias.
Transistors - overview.
MOSFETs.
Optoelectronic devices: Introduction.
Light emitting diodes.
Solid state semiconductor lasers.
Photodetectors.
Solar cells.
Mod-01 Lec-20 Semiconductor manufacturing: Introduction.
Mod-01 Lec-21 Si wafer manufacturing.
Mod-01 Lec-22 IC device manufacturing: overview.
Mod-01 Lec-23 Layering: thermal oxidation.
Mod-01 Lec-24 Doping: thermal and ion implantation.
Mod-01 Lec-25 Lithography.
Mod-01 Lec-26 Etching and deposition (growth).
Mod-01 Lec-27 Metallization and polishing.
Mod-01 Lec-28 Process and device evaluation.
Mod-01 Lec-29 Productivity and process yield.
Mod-01 Lec-30 Clean room design and contamination control.
Mod-01 Lec-31 Devices and IC formation.
Mod-01 Lec-32 IC circuit logic and packaging.

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  • This is an excellent course that really improved my fundamental knowledge of the semiconductor industry. All videos and material are really helpful and informative.

    Thanks to the Dr. S. Parasuraman.
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    Archit Devendra
    Really great initiative taken by the admins and people responsible for running this organisation. I'm grateful for learning new things related to my stream

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