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