EC ENGR 121DW

Semiconductor Processing and Device Design

Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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(Formerly numbered 121DB.) Design fabrication and characterization of p-n junction and transistors. Students perform various processing tasks such as wafer preparation, oxidation, diffusion, metallization, and photolithography. Introduction to CAD tools used in integrated circuit processing and device design. Device structure optimization tool based on MEDICI; process integration tool based on SUPREM. Course familiarizes students with those tools. Using CAD tools, CMOS process integration to be designed. Satisfies Writing II requirement.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026
Spring 2027

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Requisites

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Enforced requisites: course 121DA, English Composition 3.

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EC ENGR 121DW

EC ENGR 121DASemiconductor Processing and Device Design
- EC ENGR 121BPrinciples of Semiconductor Device Design
  - EC ENGR 2Physics for Electrical Engineers1 more beneath
ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
- ENGCOMP 2Approaches to University Writing

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