Microelectronics

This text describes device physics and circuit design in the context of modern microelectronics integrated circuit technology. It introduces approaches to learning the core device physics and analogue/digital circuit concepts that make the subject more accessible to students. The presentation limits coverage to only those concepts necessary for the understanding of devices and circuits. Offering coverage of analogue/digital/memory circuit design - in modular form - in a single source, it uses an integrated circuit context for introduction, examples and problems, and technology cross-sections and layouts to help put abstract circuit and device concepts into actual physical structures. Readers are also guided through examples of actual design processes that parallel the design approach used by integrated circuit engineers - beginning with rough hand calculations and following with computer simulations using SPICE to optimize the design.