EENG 590J Advanced Solid State

Devices

Tuskegee University
Fall 2010
M. A. Awaah
Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 Semiconductor Devices

1.2 Semiconductor Technology
Summary

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 1.1 Semiconductor Devices

Figure 1.1. Gross world product (GWP) and sales volumes of the
electronics, automobile, semiconductor, and steel industries from 1980 to
2000 and projected to 2010.1,2 Semiconductor Devices, 2/E by S. M. Sze
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 1.1.1 Device Building Block

Figure 1.2. Basic device building blocks. (a) Metal-semiconductor

interface; (b) p-n junction; (c) heterojunction interface; and (d) metal-oxide-
semiconductor structure.

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1.1.2 Major Semiconductor Devices

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 1.1.2 Major Semiconductor Devices

Figure 1.5. (a) A schematic diagram of the first nonvolatile semiconductor

memory (NVSM) with a floating gate.21 (b) A limiting case of the floating-
gate NVSM—the single-electron memory cell.22
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1.2 Semiconductor Technology
1.2.1 Key Semiconductor Technologies
Table 2. Key Semiconductor Technologies

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Fig. 6 The First monolithic integrated circuit. (photographed courtesy of
Dr. G. Moore.)
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Fig. 7 The First microprocessor (photographed courtesy of Intel Corp.)
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1.2.2 Technology Trends

Figure 1.8.
Exponential increase of
dynamic random access
memory density versus year
based on the Semiconductor
Industry Association (SIA)
roadmap.49

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Figure 1.9. Exponential increase of microprocessor computational power
versus year.
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Figure 1.10.
Growth curves for different
technology drivers.50

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