Course overview
- Course codeFMCC010
- ECTS credits7.5
- DepartmentMICROTECHNOLOGY AND NANOSCIENCE
- Graduate schoolMicrotechnology and Nanoscience
- PeriodicityEvery second year in LP 4 (even years)
- LanguageEnglish
- Nordic Five Tech (N5T)The course is free of charge for PhD students from N5T Universities.
- ApplicationContact the course coordinator
Course coordinator
- Christian Fager
- Full Professor, Microwave Electronics, Microtechnology and Nanoscience
About the course
The course objective is to teach methods commonly used in the microwave community for empirical device modeling, i.e. for development of small- and large signal models from measurements and physical understanding of dominant device mechanisms.
Literature
- M. Rudolph, "Introduction to modelling HBTs," Artech House, 2006.
- S. Maas, "Nonlinear Microwave Circuits," IEEE Press, 1997 (2nd ed. Artech House, 2003)
- M. Golio, "Microwave MESFET's and HEMT's," Artech House, 1991
- P. Antognetti and G. Massobrio, "Semiconductor device modeling with SPICE," McGraw Hill, 1988
- C. Fager, "Microwave FET modeling and applications," Ph.D. thesis, Chalmers, 2001
- M. Garcia, "Experimentally based HFET modeling for microwave and millimeter wave applications," Ph.D. thesis, Chalmers, 1998
- K. Yhland, "Resistive FET mixers," Ph.D. thesis, Chalmers, 1999.
Lecturer
Examiner: Christian Fager /christian.fager@chalmers.se