EE 436 Physics of Transistors Spring 2020

Project ideas

Some project topic suggestion. You are certainly welcome to come up with your topics, as well.

  1. Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) and/or CMOS imagers
  2. GaN transistors
  3. Flash NAND technology
  4. Power MOSFET
  5. JFETS/MESFETs
  6. FinFet technology
  7. Psuedomorphic high-electron mobility transistors (PHEMTs)
  8. Thin-film transistors (TFTs)
  9. Resonant tunneling diodes
  10. Gunn effect
  11. Solar-cell physics
  12. Carbon-nanotube based transistors
  13. Insulated-gate bipolar transistor
  14. Moore's Law and the current status of CMOS development
  15. Peltier/Seebeck devices
  16. Silicon-germanium (SiGe) transistor technology
  17. Drift transistor
  18. silicon-controlled rectifiers (SCRs or thyristors)
  19. Modulation doping and MODFETs
  20. IMPATT diodes
  21. the Gunn effect and Gunn diodes