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ECE 695A Reliability Physics of Nanotransistors
17 Jan 2013 | Courses | Contributor(s): Muhammad Alam
This course will focus on the physics of reliability of small semiconductor devices. In traditional courses on device physics, the students learn how to compute current through a device when a voltage is applied.
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Solar Cell Fundamentals
19 Aug 2011 | Courses | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom, J. L. Gray, Muhammad A. Alam
The modern solar cell was invented at Bell Labs in 1954 and is
currently receiving renewed attention as a potential contribution to
addressing the world's energy challenge. This set of five tutorials
is an introduction to solar cell technology fundamentals. It begins
with a broad …
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Nanostructured Electronic Devices: Percolation and Reliability
17 Sep 2009 | Courses | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam
In this series of lectures introduces a simple theoretical framework for treating randomness and variability in emerging nanostructured electronic devices for wide ranging applications – all within an unified framework of spatial and temporal percolation. The problems considered involve …
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ECE 606: Principles of Semiconductor Devices
12 Nov 2008 | Courses | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam
In the last 50 years, solid state devices like transistors have evolved from an interesting laboratory experiment to a technology with applications in all aspects of modern life. Making transistors is a complex process that requires unprecedented collaboration among material scientists, solid state …
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Percolation Theory
03 Nov 2008 | Courses | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam
The electronic devices these days have become so small that the number of dopant atoms in the channel of a MOFET transistor, the number of oxide atoms in its gate dielectric, the number silicon- or metal crystals in nanocrystal Flash memory, the number of Nanowires in a flexible nanoNET transistor, …
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Reliability Physics of Nanoscale Transistors
27 Nov 2007 | Courses | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam
This course will focus on the physics of reliability of small semiconductor devices. In traditional courses on device physics, we learn how to compute current through a device when a voltage is applied. However, as transistors are turned on and off trillions of times during the years of the …
