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High-Speed Heterostructure Devices

High-Speed Heterostructure Devices

High-Speed Heterostructure Devices

From Device Concepts to Circuit Modeling
Patrick Roblin, Ohio State University
Hans Rohdin, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California
December 2004
Adobe eBook Reader
9780511060595

    Fuelled by rapid growth in communications technology, silicon heterostructures and related high-speed semiconductors are spearheading the drive toward smaller, faster and lower power devices. High-Speed Heterostructure Devices is a textbook on modern high-speed semiconductor devices intended for both graduate students and practising engineers. This book is concerned with the underlying physics of heterostructures as well as some of the most recent techniques for modeling and simulating these devices. Emphasis is placed on heterostructure devices of the immediate future such as the MODFET, HBT and RTD. The principles of operation of other devices such as the Bloch Oscillator, RITD, Gunn diode, quantum cascade laser and SOI and LD MOSFETs are also introduced. Initially developed for a graduate course taught at Ohio State University, the book comes with a complete set of homework problems and a web link to MATLAB programs supporting the lecture material.

    • First graduate textbook on silicon heterostructures
    • Includes techniques for modeling and simulating the latest devices including MODFETs, HBTs and RTDs
    • Web link to MATLAB models and simulations

    Product details

    December 2004
    Adobe eBook Reader
    9780511060595
    0 pages
    0kg
    220 b/w illus. 40 tables
    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Acknowledgements
    • 1. Heterostructure materials
    • 2. Semiclassical theory of heterostructures
    • 3. Quantum theory of heterostructures
    • 4. Quantum heterostructure devices
    • 5. Scattering processes in heterostructures
    • 6. Scattering-assisted tunneling
    • 7. Frequency response of quantum devices from DC to infrared
    • 8. Charge control of the two-dimensional electron gas
    • 9. High electric field transport
    • 10. I-V model of the MODFET
    • 11. Small-and large-signal AC models for the long-channel MODFET
    • 12. Small-and large-signal AC models for the short-channel MODFET
    • 13. DC and microwave electrothermal modeling of FETs
    • 14. Analytical DC analysis of short-gate MODFETs
    • 15. Small signal AC analysis of the short-gate velocity-saturated MODFET
    • 16. Gate resistance and the Schottky-barrier interface
    • 17. MODFET high-frequency performance
    • 18. Modeling high-performance HBTs
    • 19. Practical high-frequency HBTs
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • David Pulfrey, Nick Moll, Siraj Akthar