Teaching
class notes, handouts, and related links
Spring
2013, ECE
340: Semiconductor
Electronics
- Intro/Motivation, Crystal Lattices, Energy Bands: L1-L2, L3-L5
- Carrier Statistics, Drift and Diffusion: L6-L8a, L9-L11,
L12-L15, L16-L18
- P-N Junctions: L19-L22, L23-L26a, L27-L29a [PNprob]
- MS, MOS, and MOSFET: L30-L32a, L33-L34a, L35-36a, Lsupp [MOSprob]
- Bipolar Transistors: L37a, L38-L40a, L41a [BJTprob]
- Principles of Semiconductor Devices, a free online textbook by B. Van Zeghbroeck
- Sister courses: Berkeley EE130 (Prof. T.-J. King) and MIT 6.012 (Prof. J. del Alamo)
- Course notes by Prof. J. Singh at UMich (slightly more advanced than 440)
- ECE 440 on the nanoHUB (several lectures from Fall 2008)
- Physical properties of silicon and other semiconductors
- Issue on scaling beyond Si CMOS in the IBM J. Res. Dev. (Aug 2006)
- Britney Spears' guide to semiconductor physics
- An online tutorial on solid crystal structures
Fall 2012, ECE 340: Solid-State Electronic Devices
- For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester of ECE 340 above
Fall 2011, ECE 565: Energy Dissipation in Electronics
- For handouts, additional links, see previous semester of ECE 598EP below
Spring 2011, ECE 440: Solid-State Electronic Devices
- For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester of ECE 340 above
Fall 2010, ECE 598EP: Hot Chips: Atoms to Heat Sinks
- Syllabus, Intro/motivation: L1L2
- Electron & phonon heat capacity, thermal conductivity: L3L4, L5L6L7
- Refs: Debye (1912), Re:Debye (1980), Hall Re:Sommerfeld (1928), Blotekjaer (1970), Olson (1993), Srivastava (2001), Holland (1963), Glassbrenner (1964), Klemens (1993), Kumar (1993)
- Low-dimensional and boundary effects, Landauer conductance: L8L9, L10, L10supp, L11 (Cahill), L12L13
- Refs: Goodson (1999), Swartz (1989), Li (2003), Dames (2004), Schwab (2000), Charlier (2007), Buttiker (1985), Kane (1961), Martin (2009)
- Power, leakage, and temperature in electron devices: L14L15, L16L17
- Refs: Wachutka (1990), Lindefelt (1994), Pop (2005), Tomizawa (1993), Ouyang (2006), Lake (1992), Segal (2002), Roy/Prasad (2000), Zhai (2005), Hanson & Haensch (2006)
- Device, interconnect, package heat transfer: L18L19, L20L21
- Refs: Sunderland (1964), Mautry (1990), Su (1995), Lienhard (2008), Dwyer (1990), Clemente (1993), Rinaldi (2001), Kumar (2005), Pedram (2006), Prasher (2006), Mahajan (2006)
- Final project resources: IEDM format, Sample IEDM paper (Pop), Paper-writing tips (Senturia)
- Old (2009) Wikipedia contributions: IC Cooling, Carrier Scattering, Ballistic Conduction, Thermal Properties of Nanostructures, Interfacial Thermal Resistance, Semiconductor Carrier Mobility
Spring 2010, ECE 440: Solid-State Electronic Devices
- For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above
Fall 2009, ECE 440: Solid-State Electronic Devices
- For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above
Spring 2009, ECE 598EP: Hot Chips: Atoms to Heat Sinks
- Student rating: teaching effectiveness 4.8 out of 5.0
- For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above
Fall 2008, ECE 440: Solid-State Electronic Devices
- Student rating: teaching effectiveness 4.8 out of 5.0
- ECE 440 on the nanoHUB (several lectures from Fall 2008)
- For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above
Spring 2008, ECE 598EP: Hot Chips: Atoms to Heat Sinks
- First time this new course was offered
- For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above
Fall 2007, ECE 440: Solid-State Electronic Devices
- Student rating: teaching effectiveness 4.9 out of 5.0
- Student comments: "Best ECE professor I have had thus far," "Lecture notes work well with the textbook," "Very clear explanations," "Handouts are great," "Lots of real world examples," "Very able and willing to answer student questions," "Metaphors help clarify things better"
- For handouts, additional links, see more recent semester above
updated Aug 2012