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Conductors, Semiconductors and Diodes

• Simple Conduction
• Introduction to Semiconductors
• Doped Semiconductors
• P-N Junction: Part I
• PN-Junction: Part II
• Gauss' Law
• Depletion Width
• Forward Biased
• The Diode Equation
• Reverse Biased/Breakdown
• Diffusion
• Light Emitting Diode
• LASER
• Solar Cells

Bipolar Transistors

• Intro to Bipolar Transistors
• Transistor Equations
• Transistor I-V Characteristics
• Common Emitter Models
• Small Signal Models
• Small Signal Model for Bipolar Transistor

FETs

• Introduction to MOSFETs
• Basic MOS Structure
• Threshold Voltage
• MOS Transistor
• MOS Regimes
• Plotting MOS I-V
• Models
• Inverters and Logic
• Transistor Loads for Inverters
• CMOS Logic
• JFET
• Electrostatic Discharge and Latch-Up

IC Manufacturing

• Introduction to IC Manufacturing Technology
• Silicon Growth
• Doping
• Fick's First Law
• Fick's Second Law
• Photolithography
• Integrated Circuit Well and Gate Creation
• Applying Metal/Sputtering
• Integrated Circuit Manufacturing: Bird's Eye View
• Diffused Resistor
• Yield

Introduction to Transmission Lines

• Introduction to Transmission Lines: Distributed Parameters
• Telegrapher's Equations
• Transmission Line Equation
• Transmission Line Examples
• Exciting a Line
• Terminated Lines
• Bounce Diagrams
• Cascaded Lines

AC Steady-State Transmission

• Introduction to Phasors
• A/C Line Behavior
• Terminated Lines
• Line Impedance
• Crank Diagram
• Standing Waves/VSWR
• Bilinear Transform
• The Smith Chart
• Introduction to Using the Smith Chart
• Simple Calculations with the Smith Chart
• Power
• Finding ZL
• Matching
• Introduction to Parallel Matching
• Single Stub Matching
• Double Stub Matching
• Odds and Ends