Skip to main content

FIH3609 Analysis and Design of Semiconductor Devices 7.5 credits

Course offerings are missing for current or upcoming semesters.
Headings with content from the Course syllabus FIH3609 (Spring 2020–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

This course covers the most important device in silicon: nanometer sized MOSFETs for digital high speed operation. Sections: Historical background of semiconductor devices, technology and device trends, physics of the MOS structure, MOSFET scaling theory, nanometer design, variability, manufacturability, silicon-on-insulator (SOI), FinFET and new techniques such as graphene, carbon nanotubes and nanowires. Apart from the text book, research articles are studied, and the students select one recent article to present in English in a seminar.

Intended learning outcomes

The course is about advanced nanometerscaled semiconductor devices for application areas such as very large-scale integrated circuits and for high-speed communications.

After the course, the student should be able to

  • analyse the operation of semiconductor devices
  • analyse delay times from parasitics
  • analyse scaling of MOSFETs
  • design a scaled down device from a given device
  • discuss semiconductor devices based on research articles

With analyse is meant to derive relations and calculate from equations given in the textbook.

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

A basic course in semiconductor devices or semiconductor physics.

Recommended prerequisites

No information inserted

Equipment

No information inserted

Literature

No information inserted

Examination and completion

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Grading scale

P, F

Examination

  • EXA1 - Examination, 7.5 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Homework, Simulation Lab, Seminar presentation and Written exam.

Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination

No information inserted

Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination

No information inserted

Examiner

Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

Main field of study

This course does not belong to any Main field of study.

Education cycle

Third cycle

Add-on studies

No information inserted

Postgraduate course

Postgraduate courses at EECS/Electronics and Embedded Systems