Course Outline

• المقرر الدراسي: EE 310

Text Book: Microelectronic Circuits, by Sedra/ Smith, 5ed ,edition 2004, Oxford University Press.

Course Content:

 Introduction

- Semiconductors: how different from metals and insulators

- Intrinsic, N-type, and P-type Semiconductors

- Generation, Recombination, and Energy band model

- Conductivity and resistivity

- Current mechanisms: diffusion and drift currents

 P-N Junction Diodes

- Physical Operation of Diodes 

- Terminal (I-V) characteristics of Junction Diodes

- The Ideal Diode and Constant-Voltage Models

- Diode Applications: Logic gates, Rectifiers, Photodiodes, Solar Cells, LEDs, Zener, and 

Laser Diodes.

- Analysis of Diode Circuits

 

- The Small-Signal Model and its Application

 Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors (MOSFETs)

- Introduction: MOSFET and the Digital World

- The Enhancement-Type MOSFET (E-MOSFET): Device Structure and Physical Operation 

- Current-Voltage Characteristics for E-MOSFET

- The Depletion-Type MOSFET (D-MOSFET): Device Structure and Physical Operation

- Current-Voltage Characteristics for D-MOSFET

- MOSFET Circuits at DC

- The MOSFET as an Amplifier and as a Switch

- Small-Signal Operation and Models

- The NMOS and CMOS Digital Logic Inverters

 Bipolar Junction Transistors

- Physical Structures Modes of Operation, and Types

- Graphical Representation of Transistor Characteristics

- Analysis of Transistor Circuits at DC

- The Transistor as an Amplifier

- Small-Signal Equivalent Circuit Models

- Graphical Analysis 

- The Transistor as a Switch

 Four Layers (three junctions) Devices: Thyristors

- Structure

 

- I-V characteristics