Semiconductor devices 2 - Interaktive Studienpläne der TU Ilmenau

Fundamentals of electronics, Fundamentals of electrical engineering, Semiconductor devices 1

Knowledge:

• Students acquire an overview on current RAM technologies: the physical background, typical applications and physical limits of different RAM and mass storage devices.

Capabilities:

• Profound understanding of various RAM technologies and valuation of their advantages and disadvantages.
• Knowledge of current difficulties and developments in RAM-technologies and knowledge of recent research approaches

Competences:

• Students understand the physical background of different RAM devices, their scaling limits and functional principles.

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1-MOSFET Ideal and real CV curve of the MOS capacitor, Stationary behavior of the MOSFET, Small signal behavior, Short channel effects

2-Limits of Binary Computation Binary states variables, physical limits of computation, Moore's law

3-Random Access Memories DRAM, Flash memories (EPROM, EEPROM), FeRAM ,FeFET, MTJ, MRAM

4-Resistive Random Access Memories The memory gap problem, PCM, FTJ, ECM and VCM, TCM

PowerPoint resentations + blackbboard

Simon M. Sze: Physics of Semiconductor Devices. Wiley & Sons 2006 Michael

S. Shur: Physics of Semiconductor Devices. Prentice Hall 1991

Simon M. Sze: Modern Semiconductor Device Physics. Wiley & Sons 1997