This book examines in detail how a semiconductor device is designed and fabricated to satisfy best the requirements of the target application. The author presents and explains both basic and state-of-art semiconductor industry standards used in large/small signal equivalent circuit models for semiconductor devices that electronics engineers routinely use in their design calculations. The presentation includes detailed, step-by-step information on how a semiconductor device is fabricated, and the very sophisticated supporting technologies used in the process flow. The author also explains how standard laboratory equipment can be used to extract useful performance metrics of a semiconductor device.
• Demonstrates importance of TCAD tools with examples from steady-state Monte Carlo algorithm-based TCAD tool DeviceMaker
• Surveys various emerging semiconductor materials and the advantages of inorganic, as opposed to organic;
• Examines in detail band gap engineering techniques, used to satisfy stringent performance requirements.
Fundamental Quantum and Statistical Mechanics of Crystalline Solids.-
Charge Transport(Current Flow) in Semiconductors.- Homogeneous(np|pn) and
Heterogeneous(Np) Semiconductor Junction Fundamentals.- Basic Heterogeneous
Bipolar|Bijunction Transistor(HBT) Properties.- Advanced VBIC and
Angelov-Chalmers Models for Homogeneous|Heterogeneous Bipolar|Bijunction
Transistor.- Heterogeneous Junction Field Effect Devices Schottky Diode,
Metal Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MESFET), High Electron Mobility
Transistor(HEMT).- AlGaAs-GaAs, AlGaN-GaN, SiC HEMT Large Signal Model
Equivalent Electrical Circuits(Angelov Chalmers Model) Normally On|Off
HEMT, pHEMT, mHEMT and MODFET.- Homogeneous Junction Bipolar|Bijunction
Transistor.- Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor.- Noise in
Semiconductor Devices.- Semiconductor Device Manufacturing Technologies.-
Designing Transistors for Specific Applications.- Performance Characteristics
of Selected Commercial Transistors and Technology Computer Aided Design(TCAD)
Tools.- Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices.- Gallium Nitride - Reigning
King of Ultra High Frequency|Power Transistors.
Amal Banerjee had his high school and a small part of his college education in Kolkata India. He then got admitted to the University of Texas at Austin Texas, USA, where he completed his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Physics (with highest honors), and then transferred to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the same University where he completed a MSE (Master of Science in Engineering) and all his course work for a PhD. During his stay in the USA, he has worked as consulting engineer at a number of high technology companies as Silicon Laboratories, SMC Networks, VI Technology, Object Reservoir Inc., Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin Texas (MCC) etc., He has also worked as a Research Associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Berkeley California and Brookhaven National Laboratories, Islip New York. He is now the Engineering Manager at Analog Electronics.
