COURSE

MICS5240

Advanced Semiconductor Devices

Function Hub / Microelectronics · 3 Credits

Building on the semiconductor fundamentals and device physics knowledge, this course teaches the latest development and advancement in CMOS devices and emerging device architectures, including novel memory technologies. Major topics covered in this course include (i) CMOS transistor scaling physics and short channel effects for nanoscale MOSFETs, (ii) advanced process technologies including high-k gate dielectrics, metal gates, ultra-shallow junctions, advanced doping techniques, and high mobility channels, (iii) device reliability, high-field behavior, and hot carrier effects, (iv) alternative nanoscale transistor architectures, (v) charge-based memory and non-volatile memory technology, and (vi) more-than-Moore technological trends.