Devices and MEMS

Qualifying Exam Syllabus

Circuit Design:

• CMOS analog circuits
• Operational amplifiers
• Switched capacitor circuits
• Technologies: Low power CMOS, High frequency RF CMOS

Semiconductor Devices:

• device physics (band theory, drift-diffusion-recombination)
• pn-junction diode
• bipolar junction transistor
• MOSFET

VLSI and MEMS Microfabrication Techniques:

• unit processes: diffusion, implantation, film growth, deposition, etching
• common/modern CMOS process and fabrication flows
• MEMS release processes

Principles of Micro Sensors and Transducers:

• optical sensors
• thermal sensors
• pressure sensors
• electrostatic transducers
• thermal transducers

Photonics:

• Fundamentals of Optics: Geometrical optics and matrix methods; Wave optics, superposition, and interference; Gaussian beam optics and lasers; Polarization; Photons and photons in semiconductors.
• Semiconductor lasers, LEDs, and photodetectors
• Passive waveguide devices: Optical waveguide structures; Modes in optical waveguides; Waveguide coupling; Modulators and Switches.