PREREQUISITES FOR SDEVICE COURSE

1) What are miller indeces?

2) How are solids classified?
3) Poly crystalline silicon is used in fabrication of resistors instead of crystalline silicon.why?
4) What is space charge region/depletion region?
5) Mention the formula which relates depletion width and applied voltage.
6) How is depletion width dependent on doping?
7) Where is the electric field intensity maximum in a p-n junction diode?
8) How does following vary across a p-n junction diode:
a) Charge density
b) Electric field
c) Electric potential
9) How is depletion width dependent on the type of doping? (Hint: lightly doped/heavily doped)
10) How is electric field related to electric potential
11) How is electric field related to mobility? (Hint: plot)
12) What are the different types of current flowing in a p-n junction diode?
13) Mention diffusion current equation.
14) Mention drift current equation.
15) What is Fermi level. Mention the equation for Fermi energy.
16) How does Fermi energy shifts with the type of doping. (n-type/p-type)
17) What is mass action law? (Hint : equation)
18) How is diode current dependent on temperature?
19) Mention the current equation for diode
20) Plot the forward/reverse bias characteristics of a p-n junction diode.
21) How does mobility changes with : (Hint: plot)
a) Temperature
b) Electric field
22) How does conductivity changes with temperature? (Hint: plot)
23) Plot the band diagram of a p-n junction diode.
24) What is threshold voltage? What is the typical threshold voltage for silicon?
25) Define diffusion capacitance. (Hint: equation)
26) Define transition capacitance. (Hint: equation)
27) How is junction capacitance related to voltage .
(Hint: Cj V-n. Mention the value of n for linearly graded junction, abrupt junction.)
28) Plot C-V characteristics of a MOSCAP. (low frequency and high frequency).
29) What is avalanche breakdown?
30) What is zener breakdown?
31) Draw the energy band diagram of a PIN diode.
32) Mention some applications of PIN diode
33) Plot I-V characteristics of PIN diode.
34) What is the significance of intrinsic region in a PIN diode?
35) What is dark current?
36) What are the two types of MOSFETs. (Hint: based on channel availability of channel).
37) Draw transfer characteristics of n-MOS and p-MOS.
38) Draw output characteristics of n-MOS and p-MOS.
39) What is threshold voltage? (Hint: equation)
40) What is transconductance? (Hint: equation)
41) What is saturation current? (Hint: equation)
42) What is leakage current? (Hint: equation)
43) What is subthreshold slope? (Hint: equation)
44) Plot the c-v characteristics of MOSFET
45) Explain the following short channel effects: (Hint: read Weste Harris ch-2.)
a) Mobility degradation
b) Velocity saturation
c) DIBL
d) GIDL
e) Hot electron effects
46) What is the supply voltage used in 180nm and 90nm technology node.
47) What is LDD?
48) What is HALO?
49) What is the effect of scaling on following parameters: (Hint: Refer table 7.4 Weste Harris)
a) Gate capacitance.
b) Supply voltage
c) Oxide thickness
d) Channel length
e) Threshold voltage
f) Substrate doping
50) Plot the C-V characteristics of MOSFET.