ECE441 - Spring 2008

Location: 260 Everitt Lab

Time: 11:00-11:50am

Credits: 3 hours

Instructor: Professor Leburton - jleburto@uiuc.edu

Office: Beckman Institute - 3251

Phone: 333-6813

Office Hour: Wednesday 2-3pm

Teaching Assistant: Mueen Nawaz - nawaz@uiuc.edu

Office: Beckman Institute 3249

Phone: 244-1964 (much easier to contact him via email).

TA Office Hour: Thursday 2-3pm. Location: On one of the bridges on the 3rd floor of Beckman Institute.

Course Description:

Detailed presentation of advanced concepts such as generation-recombination, hot electron effects, and breakdown mechanisms; essential features of small ac characteristics, switching and transient behavior of p-n junctions, bipolar and MOS transistors; addresses fundamental issues for device modeling and discusses the perspective and limitations of Si-devices.

Prerequisite: ECE440

Scores breakdown: 250 points for the final exam, 100 points for the homework, and 150 points for the midterm exam.

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Homework

Lecture Notes

Chapter 1

TCAD

TCAD Tutorial

pn_des.cmd.txt (Right click and save the file, and rename it to pn_des.cmd).

We will meet at the regular class time on Monday, the 18th of February 2008 at DCL L440.

Exams

Note: All exams are closed books, closed notes, and no calculators are allowed.

Midterm Exam: March 12th - in class. Sample midterm

Midterm Solution.

Final Exam: Saturday, May 3rd, 8-11a

Topics for the final exam. Updated! April 29th, 2008

Sample final.

Sample final solution.