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Advanced Semiconductor Devices - ELEC9501
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Electrical Eng and Telecommunications
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.ee.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Excluded: ELEC9705, PHYS3310, SOLA5055
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Overview of the current status of VLSI chip technology and its limits, including Moore's Laws. The principles of semiconductor band-gap engineering and the use of advanced heterostructure materials such as GaAs and SiGe. Applications of band-gap engineering in devices such as high-electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs) and semiconductor lasers. Future trends using quantum principles, such as quantum wire devices, single electron transistors (SETs) and quantum computers. Semiconductor nanofabrication technologies for advanced devices.

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