MAT SCI 226 · MSE 226Si-CMOS Technology: Selected Topics in Materials Science
Materials Science and Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Selected topics in materials science from modern Si-CMOS technology, including technological challenges in high k/metal gate stacks, strained Si FETs, SOI and three-dimensional FETs, source/drain engineering including transient-enhanced diffusion, nonvolatile memory, and metallization for ohmic contacts.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Recommended preparation: Electrical Engineering 221B. Requisites: courses 130, 131, 200, 221, 222.
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MAT SCI 226
- MAT SCI 130Phase Relations in Solids
- MAT SCI 104Science of Engineering Materials
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields2 more beneath
- CHEM 20LGeneral Chemistry Laboratory
- MAT SCI 131Diffusion and Diffusion-Controlled Reactions
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- EC ENGR 221BPhysics of Semiconductor Devices II
- MAT SCI 200Principles of Materials Science I
- MAT SCI 120Physics of Materials
- MAT SCI 110Introduction to Materials Characterization A (Crystal Structure, Nanostructures, and X-Ray Scattering)
- MAT SCI 221Science of Electronic Materials
- MAT SCI 222Growth and Processing of Electronic Materials
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