Professor Serge Luryi

Fall 1998 ESE 511 Solid State Electronics

Lecture 10 Content

 
 

Lect 10 

Lecture notes available  
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Chapter 4: Field effect transistors 

two-dimensional channel; resistance "per square"
conductance g and transconductance gm ;  figure of merit  gm/C
Transistor characteristics
FET channel versus a thin film diode
Pinch-off; gradual channel approxiamtion
short shannel effects
JFET and MESFET
Channel mobility and velocity saturation
IGFET (Insulated gate FET)
MOS structure
Flatbands
Band bending
Threshold evaluation
Gradual channel approximation and pinch-off in MOSFET
Other IGFETs (non-MOS): heterostructure FETs



 Book: Chapter 4   

 

Book

M. S. Shur, Physics of semiconductor devices, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (1990).
 
 
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