JAVA APPLETS FOR SEMICONDUCTORS MANUFACTURING, FABRICATION PROCESS SIMULATION, DEVICE MODELING, CMOS, BIPOLAR, ANALOG AND DIGITAL CIRCUITS DESIGN
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List of Simulation Applets
Crystal Structure Zincblende and Diamond structures ( GaAs, Si, etc.) : unitcell with a list of material property. It gives you the 3D views of the unitcell and the covalent bonds.
Hexagonal Closed Packed structures (ZnS, GaN, SiC, etc.). An interactive 3D view of the crystal unitcell.
Crystal Structure and the 14 Bravais Lattices (java1.3): you can add various Basis atoms, rotate the crystal with one or multiple unitcells for a 3D view. It has many example crystals. You can also view the lattice planes and directions. Crystal Structure in Java 3D ! (Java3D plugin maybe needed: use link in page)
Energy Bands and Charge Carriers
Visualization of diffusion, drift and recombination of excess minority carriers in a semiconductor.
Indirect recombination via an energy state in the band gap. It also introduces the four basic processes in the Shockley-Read-Hall statistics.
Energy Band Diagram and E-k Diagram
AlGaAs
SiGe
Charge Carriers and Fermi Level [Semiconductor Statistics]
Fermi Function and Localized Energy States and the Temperature effect.
Carrier Concentration vs. Fermi Level and the doping of donor and acceptor impurities.
Carrier Concentration vs. Fermi Level and the Density of States
Moderate-doping vs. Heavy-doping [non-degenerate vs. degenerate]
PN Junction Diode at Equilibrium
PN junction diode and its band diagram. : simpler version (OK for Si, GaAs and Ge); improved version (with Ei, good for all semis).
PN junction diode, space charge profile and electric field.
PN junction diode: approaching equilibrium. This applet shows device, charge profile, and energy band with carrier conc.
PIN junction: energy band diagram. Applet is similar to PN junction band diagram applet, but with an intrinsic layer inserted.
PIN junction: space charge and electric field profile.
PN Junction Diode under Applied Bias Voltage
Biased PN Junction: band diagram and current components. With a quiz.
Space charge and electric field in biased PN junction.
PN junction diode: C-V and I-V. (java1.1)
PN junction and Schottky diodes: I-V. (java1.1)
PNP or NPN Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT)
Narrow-Base vs. Wide-Base BJT.
Charge Flow into/out-of the Base region.
BJT Dynamic Operation (Switching). (java1.1), (original version) . (size =200kB).
Small-signal equivalent circuit model (hybrid-PI model). (java2)
General (large-signal) equivalent circuit model (Ebers-Moll model) (java2)
Device Fabrication
PN Junction Diode : a multimedia approach to the fabrication steps.
n-channel MOSFET, both side-view and top-view and full photoresist steps.
BJT-FET pair on the same chip, side-view and full Photoresist steps.
CMOS Inverter, side-view, device fabrication steps.
Fabrication @ various companies.
Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) FET
Summary Three applets on enhancement MOS (inversion threshold by Vgs; dependence on Vgsand on Vgd; and the I-V curve). (Java1.0)Java1.1 version.
Individual applets:
Channel ON-OFF behaviors. Inversion channel threshold control by the gate bias. (Java1.0)Java1.1 version.
Channel ON-OFF by Vgs, Pinchoff-Continuous by Vgd. Inversion channel and drain current Id versus the gate-source bias Vgs and the gate-drain bias Vgd. (Java1.0)Java1.1 version.
Device cross-section and Output characteristics (Id vs. Vgs, Vds) The MOSFET output characteristics. Java1.1 version
MOS Capacitor
Principles of MOS Capacitor
MOS Charge-Energy Band with bias control. (Charge and Energy band: accumulation, depletion, inversion)
MOS Charge-Field-Potential with bias control. Sound effect.
MOS Charge-Energy Band, equilibrium state. Sound effect.
MOS Charge-Field-Potential, equilibrium state. Sound effect.
the Body effect.
Discussions on Threshold Voltage
Work Function difference between Gate Metal and Si : new; or old (java1.1).
A MOS calculation tool for Flat-Band Voltage (VFB) and the Threshold Voltage (VT); w. smaller text font (java 1.1).
Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET)
Output characteristics, Device cross-section, Circuit diagram.
Amplifier Circuits with BJT or MOSFET
Circuit models of four basic amplifiers
Single-stage BJT amplifier circuits (CE, CB, and CC)
Single-stage common-emitter amplifier bias design (java1.1)
Single-stage MOSFET amplifier circuits (CS, CG and CD)
Different load types in an IC Amplifier Circuit (a CS amp example)
High-frequency device model
Differential amplifier
Feedback in amplifier circuits
Digital Circuits
CMOS Inverter : The VT-matching issues (for the design of threshold voltage of MOSFET).
Transmission Gate : Simulates CMOS TGate operation in both directions.
MOS Memories
Simulation of Read or Write operation ; earlier version (java1.1)
Sense Amplifiers :
SRAM Sense Amplifier simulation (java 1.1)
DRAM Sense Amplifier simulation (java 2)
Decoders :
Row decoder simulation (java 2)
Pre-decoder simulation(java 1.1)
Column decoder simulation (java 2)
SRAM Cell simulation :
6-T CMOS cell. (java1.1)
4-T NMOS cell. (java 2)
DRAM Cell simulation
Shift Register simulation
CMOS inverter simulation (java1.1)
MOSFET simulation(java1.1)
Consumer Products with Semiconductor and Optoelectronic Components
CD-ROM and CD-RW Readhead (java1.1) : access via IE5.0 or Netscape4.7. (size = 300kB).
CD-R(Recordable) simulation(java1.1)
CD-RW(ReWritable) simulation(java1.1)
Light source : semiconductor laser diodes
Light detector : semiconductor photo diodes
Processing electronics - amplifiers, comparators, etc.
Digitized text (8-to-14 bit encoding/modulation and 3-bit merge channels)
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Heterojunctions
Energy band diagrams
Device Application of PN Junction
Photodetector
Solar Cell : design calculation
Rectifier
LED
Laser Diode
Applets on Transistors (notcompleted):
n-channel MOSFET drain characteristics .
Device Fabrication and Processing Technology (incomplete)
Self-aligned gate technology versus the conventional processing of MOSFET.
Problems general to Semiconductor Devices (incomplete)
Space charge, electric field, and potential profile. With quizes.
Charge Supply/Injection thru Junctions, and Charge Neutrality.
Semiconductor as a container of electric charge.
Carrier supply by an Ohmic contact (junction)
Carrier supply by a Forward-biased pn junction.
Carrier supply by a Reverse-biased pn junction.
A semiconductor contacted by two junctions.
Interactive 3D Data Visualization
This applet visualizes a 3D function or a 3D high-resolution x-ray diffraction data. The x-ray data are omega-2theta-chi scans on an AlGaAs/GaAs sample or a ZnCdSe/GaAs sample.
[Comprehensive List of Topics]
Solid State, Microelectronics, etc.:
Website Links for Solid State, Semiconductor Processes, etc.
Thermoelectric effect, thermoelectric device.
Photoelectric effect.
Qualitative analysis of Analog Circuits.
Simple circuit theory.
EM Wave in Waveguide.
Scaling function and wavelet for a low-pass filter.
Various CMOS Gates by J.C.Dufourd.
KV Diagram and Logic Minimization.
Logic: DL, RTL, DTL, TTL, ECL, CMOS
Multimedia Consortium for Microelectronics Education
Miscellaneous Educational Applets:
Random Numbers: transformation of uniform deviates to linear deviates.
Binary Representation and Bitwise Operators
Mathematical applets
Other interesting educational applets (engineering)
Here are links to some very good educational applets in electrical engineering and in other disciplines.
Simulation of various CMOS gates
Simulation of basic CMOS gates with explanatory text
Digital Simulator (source code included)
Eddy current simulator
Numerical simulation of Lorentz equation
The Normal Distribution
Interactive Amplitude Modulation Model
Links to Simulation and Semiconductor Web Sites
National Center for C omputational Electronics
IBM-DAMOCLES Project
Stanford TCAD
Educator's Corner Website of Agilent Technologies
Educational Object Economy
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