PHYS 525 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Survey of Fundamental Device Physics

Topics covered

Unit 1: Semiconductor physics (3 weeks)

Band structure
PN junctions and diodes
Transistors, CMOS
Logic gates, memory circuits, speed, power consumption
Circuit analysis
Operational amplifiers
Analog/digital conversion
Sampling and aliasing
Electronic Noise

Unit 2: Electrodynamics (2 weeks)

Transmission lines, characteristic impedance
Dipole radiation
Antennas, radiation resistance, gain, reciprocity

Unit 3: Continuum mechanics and acoustics (2 weeks)

Sound in fluids, pressure, velocity, acoustic impedance
Sound in solids, piezoelectrics, quartz crystals
Stress and strain, seismology
Medical ultrasound

Unit 4: Nuclear magnetic resonance (3 weeks)

Nuclear spins, Larmor precession
Fourier transform NMR
Bloch equations, relaxation
Applications to physics, chemistry, geology
Signal to noise considerations
Magnetic resonance imaging

Unit 5: Superconductivity and cryogenics (3 weeks)

London equations, Meissner effect, flux quantization
Ginsburg-Landau model, coherence length
Type II superconductivity, vortices
Cooper pairing
Josephson junctions
Superconducting qubits

Unit 6: Lasers (1.5 weeks)

General principles of stimulated emission and amplification
Laser phenomenology
Practical applications