Electronics, Circuits, Devices & Transducers (ECDT)
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: Basic principles in optical waveguides; Modulators and Switches.
Quantum Mechanics:
- Schrodinger’s Equation
- Closed and Open Systems (including Particle in a box, Single Barrier Tunneling, Double Barriers (resonant tunneling), Nanowire, Quantum Well, Quantum Dot, Coupled quantum wells, Hydrogen Atom, Kronig-Penney model, Time evolution of wave packets)
- Energy levels and wave function in a crystalline solid
- Density of states (including those listed in “Closed and Open Systems” listed above and technologically relevant nanomaterials)
- Perturbation theory (first order and second order perturbation theory)
