Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Semiconductor
Device Processing
ECE
124B Winter 2011
Instructor: Dr. Ilan Ben-Yaacov
Schedule:
Tues/Thurs 9:30 - 10:45am, GIRV 2123
Announcements
2/28/11: Instructor will hold extra office hour
from 1:30-2:30pm on Tuesday, 3/1, in ESB 3221D.
2/28/11: Instructional cleanroom
will be open 5-7pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays for the
remainder of the quarter, one of the TAs will be there at each of those times
instead of their regularly scheduled hours on those days.
2/18/11: HW5 is posted on the class
website.
2/17/11: Instructor will hold extra office hour
from 10:30-11:30am on Friday 2/18 in ESB 3221D.
2/14/11: The due date for HW4 has been postponed
to Fri, 2/18/11.
2/4/11: HW4 is posted on the class
website.
1/26/11: HW3 is posted on the class
website.
1/17/11: The due date for HW2 has been
postponed to Fri, 1/21/11.
1/13/11: HW2 is posted on the class
website.
1/12/11: As mentioned in class, the due date for HW1
has been shifted to Fri, 1/14/11. Also,
since Monday 1/17/11 is a holiday, the due date for Lab 1 has been
shifted to Wednesday 1/19/11.
1/04/11:
Welcome to ECE 124B. HW1 and all handouts are posted on the
class website.
Syllabus
(click here for syllabus in .pdf format)
Time: Tues/Thurs
9:30 10:45am
Place: GIRV
2123
Instructor: Dr.
Ilan Ben-Yaacov, ESB Room 3221D, ext 5295, ilan[at]engineering.ucsb.edu
Office Hours: Wed
9:30 11:30am, ESB Room 3221D
Teaching Assistants: Samuel
Beach (beach[at]umail.ucsb.edu), lab hours MWF 10am-12pm
Stephen
Kaun (skaun[at]umail.ucsb.edu), lab hours TRF 2-4pm
Lab Supervisor: Bob Hill, Engineering II Room 1141,
ext 4142, bob[at]ece.ucsb.edu
Laboratory Hours: There are no
scheduled hours for the lab work. The UCSB Instructional Cleanroom will
be available weekdays from 8am-5pm. For safety reasons, you will not be
permitted to work alone. There will be equipment demonstration sessions,
which are required.
Lab Safety: It
is essential that safety procedures be followed at all times. You will be
working with acids (including HF), bases, and organic solvents that can be
hazardous if not handled properly. You are required to attend a safety orientation
session before you will be permitted to enter the lab. There are sessions
provided by the university, or a series of tapes provided by the ECE department
and Bob Hill.
Required Text: Fundamentals of Semiconductor
Fabrication by G. S.
May and S. M. Sze, published by John Wiley and Sons, 2004, ISBN 0-471-23279-3.
Handouts and class notes will complement the
text. All handouts can be downloaded by clicking on the appropriate link
at the bottom of this website.
Prerequisites: ECE 132
with a grade of C- or better, or equivalent, or consent of the instructor.
Topics to be covered:
Optical Lithography
Thermal Oxidation
Junction Formation
Etching
Thin Film Deposition
Ohmic, Schottky, and MOS Contact
Formation
NMOS Process and Characterization
Course Format: There
will be homework assignments, a midterm, laboratory work, and a final lab
project. Laboratory work will consist of experimenting with various processes such
as lithography, thermal oxidation, and wet etching, and determining process
tolerances. For the final project, you will use the skills you have
developed in the lab to fabricate and characterize a MOS transistor.
Homework, midterm, lab, and final lab project will each contribute 15%, 30%,
15% and 40% to the final grade.
Lab Project 1 Due Tues, 1/18/11 by 5:00pm Wed, 1/19/11
by 5:00pm
Lab Project 2 Due Tues, 2/1/11 by 5:00pm
Final Lab Project Due Wednesday, 3/16/11 by 5:00pm
Homework 1 Due
Thurs, 1/13/11 by 5:00pm Fri,
1/14/11 by 5:00pm
Homework 2 Due
Thurs, 1/20/11 by 5:00pm Fri,
1/21/11 by 5:00pm
Homework 3 Due
Thurs, 2/03/11 by 5:00pm
Homework 4 Due
Thurs, 2/17/11 by 5:00pm Fri, 2/18/11 by 5:00pm
Homework 5
Due Tues, 3/1/11 by 5:00pm
Midterm will be on Thursday, 3/3/11. You will be allowed a calculator and 2 pages of
notes (8.5 by 11 inch, you may write on front and back). Midterm review will be in class on Tuesday
3/1/11.
NMOS Process Solid Solubilities of Impurities
in Silicon
Wafer Scribing
and Cleaning Periodic Table of Elements
HF Safety Tips Lateral Diffusion
Metal Evaporation
Thermal Evaporator
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