Electronic Materials Processing
Oral Qualifying Exam - Electronic Materials Processing
The material covered for the Electronic Materials Processing Oral Exam include topics covered by the following texts and a partial list given below.
Recommended texts for review:
- G. E. Anner, Planar Processing Primer (ECE 444 textbook)
- Angus Rockett “The Materials Science of Semiconductors” (Springer, 2008)
Topics
- Properties and operating principles of semiconductor devices
- Fabrication of semiconductor wafers
- X-ray and electron diffraction for electronic materials
- Electronic structure of semiconductors
- Semiconductor alloys
- Defects in semiconductors and their electronic effects
- Amorphous semiconductors
- Organic electronic materials
- Process integration
- Oxidation
- Photolithography
- Etching processes
- Junction diffusion
- Chemical vapor deposition
- Sputter deposition
- Molecular Beam Eptiaxy