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Electronic materials,
Parasuraman S — MM5017
The book is developed based on the course notes of ’Electronic
materials, devices, and fabrication’. It is designed to develop
an understanding of the materials, devices, and processing techniques used in the current semiconductor industry. The course
is geared towards advanced undergraduate and graduate students with a background in Metallurgy, Mechanical, Chemical
and Electrical engineering.The course provides the students with
the basic physics behind semiconductor materials, types of semiconductors, and the reason for the dominance of silicon in the
electronics industry. The course also covers the basics of devices
with emphasis on their electronic characteristics. Optical devices like LEDs, lasers, solar cells, will also be explained. The
current manufacturing processes in the silicon based semiconductor industry, starting from silicon wafer production to final
IC (integrated circuit) development, will be explained. The focus will be on industry challenges during miniaturization and the
role of materials in overcoming the challenges. Along with the
chapters there are problem sets to help understand the concepts
clearly.The PDFs have been prepared in LATEX, using Texmaker
and MiKTeX. The final book compilation was done using the
Springer format for monographs, that is freely available online.
The format has not been modified. The cover page was made
using PSTricks.
devices,
and fabrication
Parasuraman Swaminathan