UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN ELECTRONICS SCIENCE
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

Semester IV - Paper VI - Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits

Duration: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Unit-1

Junction Diode - biasing - V-I characteristics - Working and characteristics of Varactor Diode, IMPATT Diode and TRAPATT Diodes - Tunnel Diodes - Biasing - Energy band diagram - V-I characteristics and applications - Uni-Junction Transistor - Construction and working - Characteristics of UJT - LED - Working and merits.

Unit-2

Junction Transistor - Biasing of NPN & PNP Transistors - Transistor as an amplifier - Silicon Controlled Rectifier(SCR) - Construction operation - V-I characteristics - SCR as an rectifier - Shockley (PNPN) diode - Working and Characteristics - DIAC & TRIAC - Working and characteristics.

Unit-3

Field Effect Transistors - Construction and Working - Static and Transfer Characteristics - Parameters of FET- FET as an amplifier - Metal Oxide Semiconductor PET - Enhancement MOSFET, Depletion MOSFET - Construction and Working - Drain Characteristics of MOSFET - Comparison of JFET and MOSFET.

Unit-4

Charge Transfer Devices (CTDs) - Charge Coupled Device (CCD) - Bucket Brigade Device (BBD) - Applications - Schottky Effect - Metal Semiconductor Junction - Depletion Layer - Metal Insulator Semiconductor (MIS) Diode - Working Characteristics of MIS Diode - MIM Diode Working and Characteristics, Excitation - Semiconductor Light Sources - Photo Detectors - PIN Diode - Semiconductor LASER Diode - Tunnel Transistor.

Unit-5

Integrated Circuit Classification - IC Chip size and circuit complexity - Fundamentals of Monolithic IC technology - Fabrication of a typical circuit - Active and Passive components - Fabrication of FETs - Thin and Thick Film technology - LSI - MSI - VLSI - IC Package and symbols.

Books for study and reference

1. Physics of Semiconductor Devices - S. M.Sze, Wiley Interscience.
2. Electronic Devices and Circuits (Applied Electronics Vol-I) - G.K.Mithal, Khanna Publishers.
3. Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Electronics - A.G.Ivlilnes Von Nostrant, Reinhold Corporation.
4. Linear Integrated Circuits - B.Roy Choudhury & Shail Jain, New Age International (P) Ltd.
5. Integrated Electronics - Jacob Millman & C. C. Halkias (Tata McGraw Hill).
6. Basic Electronics, 6^th Edition by B. Grob, McGraw- Hill, NY, 1989.