65777 - Electronics for information, energy generation and management (2nd cycle)

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Claudio Fiegna
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: ING-INF/01
  • Language: Italian

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, the student understands the operating principles and the fabrication technologies of the most important semiconductor devices that are present in digital, analog, and power circuits, with emphasis on applications in the fields of energy efficiency for environmental sustainability.

Course contents


Quantum mechanics and semiclassical transport model: the wave particle dualism for the electron.

The Schroedinger equation; energy quantization; dispersion relationship for a crystal: direct (Si) and indirect (GaAS) bandgap.

The effective mass approximation. Quantum-mechanical tunneling.

Electron and Holes in semiconductors. Semiconductors at equilibrium. Charge transport in semiconductors. Drift-diffusion transport model. P-N Junction at equilibrium and off equilibrium. P-N I-V characteristics. Non-ideality and non-stationary effects.

Bipolar Transistor. Emitter efficiency and base transport factor.

MOS structure and MOS capacitor. Qualitative and quantitative analysis. Threshold voltage and capacitances.

MOS transistor. Gradual channel approximation and I-V characteristics. Subthreshold. Non ideality effects. Scaling. Short channel effects. Advanced structures and fundamental limits.

Photo-voltaics devices and modules. Power MOSFETs. Micro- and nano-electronics technology evolution.

IC fabrication Technology

Evolution of the CMOS Technology

SOI Technology

FinFET and Tri-gate MOSFETs

Organic Semiconductors.

Transistors based on organic semiconductors.

Organic LEDs.

Organic Photovoltaic cells.

Readings/Bibliography

Dispositivi per la microelettronica
G. Ghione, Mc GrawHill Italia, 1998.

Fundamentals of MODERN VLSI DEVICES
Yuan Taur, Tak H. Ning
Cambridge University Press
ISBN 0 521 55959 6

J. D. Plummer, M. D. Deal, P. B. Griffin, "Silicon VLSI Technology - Fundamentals, Practice and Modeling", Prentice Hall, 2000

Richard S. Muller, Theodore I. Kamins, “Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits, 3rd Edition”, ISBN: 978-0-471-59398-0

Teaching methods

Conventional teaching with blackboard and with the aid of slides.

Laboratory experimental and simulation analysis of transistors and solar cells

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Teaching tools

Slides.

Numerical simulation programs.

Instrumentation for experimental characterization of transistors and solar cells.

Office hours

See the website of Claudio Fiegna

See the website of Aldo Romani

See the website of Andrea Natale Tallarico