NOTICE

To obtain the lab manual and to sign up for a lab section, see Professor Scherer's assistant, Kate Finigan, in room 212 Sloan Annex between the hours of 10 am and 3 pm M-F.

Introduction

Solid-state electronics for integrated circuits (APh 9) is a lecture/laboratory course designed so that first-year undergraduate students can obtain hands-on experience on the fabrication and measurement of common semiconductor devices. The laboratory exercises during the first term of this two - term course consist of the processing of light emitting diodes, Schottky diodes, metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) capacitors, p-n junction diodes and field-effect transistors. Students start with plain wafers of silicon or gallium arsenide phosphide and have to design, create, and measure their own devices. Laboratory teaching assistants supervise the students in these tasks, instruct them on how to make their own photolithography masks and guide the students through the lithography, pattern transfer, metallization and device measurement procedures. During the second term of the class, students build on the experience which they gained during the first term, and construct more advanced devices, including MOS field effect transistors, bipolar transistors, microelectromechanical microphones, and laser diodes.

Policies

The class policies are available in pdf format. For PDF files . They have been created with Acrobat 4.0 unless stated otherwise.

Experiments - First Term

Light-Emitting Diode (LED)

Schottky Diode

MOS Capacitor

PN Diode

Lecture notes

Lecture 1: 9/28/2000

Lecture 2: 9/29/2000

Homework - First Term

Textbook - Required

Understanding Semiconductor Devices, by Sima Dimitrijev

Laboratory Personnel Contact Information

Faculty
Professor Axel Scherer	203 Sloan Annex	x4691	etcher@caltech.edu
Assistant
Kate Finigan	212 Sloan Annex	x4585	kate@caltech.edu
Lab Coordinator
Dr. Guy DeRose	213 Sloan Annex	x3423	derose@caltech.edu
Graduate Teaching Assistants
Mark Adams	36 Moore	x2206	marka@caltech.edu
Ali Husain	36 Moore	x2206	ahusain@caltech.edu
Marko Loncar	44 Moore	x2207	loncar@its.caltech.edu
Terrell Neal	36 Moore	x2206	terrell@caltech.edu
Tomoyuki Yoshie	44 Moore	x2207	yoshie@its.caltech.edu
Undergrad Teaching Assistants
Michael Hochberg		x1613	hochberg@caltech.edu

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