Integrated Circuit Components and Structures

Abstract

Studying this chapter should enable you

• □ To describe the physical structures of the components commonly used in ICs from the point of view of design.

• □ To learn some of the terminology on wafer fabrication that is needed for design.

• □ To get an appreciation of why a designer has to accept the electrical properties provided by a fabrication process.

• □ To understand the results of doping semiconductors and the formation of p-n junctions.

• □ To be able to draw the shapes of MOS and bipolar transistor structures modified to isolate them electrically in ICs.

• □ To understand why other components used in ICs are often based on transistors or parts of transistors.