The course covers device physics, operating principles and applications of diodes, bipolar junction transistors, and field effect transistors (FET). It begins with basic properties of crystalline solids, energy diagrams, and thermal physics. P-N junction diodes are the first semiconductor device explored with further study into metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) capacitor and MOSFET based devices. The course also covers the layout of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) gates on an integrated circuit chip. Throughout the course, a number of general electronic devices are introduced including digital memories, charge coupled devices, solar cells, photodiodes, light emitting diodes and lasers. The laboratories are focused on P-N junction device parameter extraction, CMOS digital circuit characterizations, and the application of optoelectronic devices.
