Prerequisites for the Course Microelectronics

in the program MSc MSE

Topic Notes & books Online material

Math, Signal & System Theory:

- complex numbers and the complex plane Wikipedia
- Signals in time- and frequency domain [MIT1] Lecs. 2,3
(Fourier & Taylor series) [BER] Nos. 14, 15
- Frequency behaviour and transfer functions Wikipedia
in linear systems
- Control Theory & System Stability [ELE] Ch. 2.1
o Amplitude response, phase response,
phase margin
o Poles & zeros
o Bode Plot
o Nyquist Plot

Electronics Large and Small Signal Analysis

- Ohms law [SEL] 1/14f Wikipedia
- Kirchhoffs node and loop law [SEL] 1/8 1/13 [MIT1] Lecs. 5,6
[MIT2] Lec. 2
- Ideal and real voltage and current sources [SEL] 1/21 1/29 [MIT1] Lecs. 7,8
[MIT2] Lec. 3
- Voltage & current dividers [SEL] 1/20 Wikipedia
Wikipedia
- Complex impedances (combined R, L, C) [SEL] 1/48 Wikipedia
- Low pass & high pass circuits [SEL] 1/50 1/54 [MIT1] Lecs. 16,17
[MIT2] Lec. 18
- Basics Diodes [SEL] 2 [MIT1] Lec. 22
[BER] Nos. 2,3
- Basics BJT (Bipolar Junction Transistor) [SEL] 3 [MIT1] Lec. 24-26
[BER] Nos. 4,5
- Bias point and linearization [SEL] 1/16 Wikipedia
- Large and small signal analysis [SEL] 1/16, [MIT2] Lec. 11
1/31 1/41

Microelectronics
- Crystal structure and electronic band [SEL] 2 Wikipedia
structure [Sze] 1 Wikipedia
- Minority and majority charge carriers (holes [Sze] 1, 2 Wikipedia
and electrons)
- Semiconductor technology [SEL] 4 Wikipedia
o Doping [TzS] 17
o Substrate, masks, lithography, [Sze] various
- MOS device physics [TzS] 2/10 2/23 [BER] Nos. 16,17
o Doping structure [SEL] 4/3f
o pn-junctions, diode [SEL] 4/6
o large and small signal behaviour [SEL] 4/19f
[Sze] 2, 3
- CMOS inverter operation basics [SEL] 4/36f Wikipedia
References

[MIT1] MIT online course 6.071J / 22.071J Introduction to Electronics, Signals, and
Measurement ( Link)

[MIT2] MIT online course 6.002 Circuits and Electronics ( Link)

[BER] Berkeley online course, Microelectronic Devices and Circuits ( Link)

[SEL] Lecture notes Elektronik, WS06/07

in German, available at the Chair of Microelectronics
see also eLectures of the corresponding lecture ( Link)

[Sze] Sze, Semiconductor Devices, 1985

available at University Library

[TzS] Tietze & Schenk, Halbleiterschaltungstechnik, 12. Auflage, 2002

in German, available at University Library and at the Chair of Microelectronics

[ELE] eLectures at University Freiburg, Microelectronics WS07 ( Link)

M. Kuhl, M. Maurer, T. Hehn

July 2009