ECE department

ECE 103. Fundamentals of Devices and Materials (4 units)

Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/ECE.html#ece103

Description

Introduction to semiconductor materials and devices. Semiconductor crystal structure, energy bands, doping, carrier statistics, drift and diffusion, p-n junctions, metal-semiconductor junctions. Bipolar junction transistors: current flow, amplification, switching, nonideal behavior. Metal-oxide-semiconductor structures, MOSFETs, device scaling. Prerequisites: ECE 65 and PHYS 2D or PHYS 4D and 4E.

Prerequisite courses

Successor courses

ECE 103 is a prerequisite of the following 4 courses:

• ECE 135A
• ECE 181
• ECE 182
• ECE 183