Course Description
This is a comprehensive undergraduate level course on microelectronics. Topics covered include basic semiconductor physics, electrons and holes in semiconductors, electrical transport in semiconductors, PN junctions and diodes, photodetectors and solar cells, MOS capacitors, MOS field effect transistors, bipolar junction transistors, large signal and small signal models of electronic devices, single stage amplifiers, multistage amplifiers, differential amplifiers, analog circuit analysis and design, high-frequency models of devices, high-frequency circuit analysis, circuits for RF communication systems, digital logic and MOS logic devices, complimentary MOS (or CMOS) logic gates, fundamental trade-offs in high speed analog and digital circuit design.
Instructor(s)
Farhan Rana
316 Phillips Hall Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607-255-6317
Email: farhan.rana at cornell.edu
Course Level
Undergraduate (junior level)
As Offered In
Spring 2016
Required Text(s)
None.
Course Structure
The course consists of:
- Three weekly lectures
- Two weekly sections
- Twelve homeworks per semester
- Four labs per semester
- One relatively open-ended lab design project per semester
- One midterm exam and one final exam.
