IIT 340 — FUNDAMENTALS OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES (CUR-118)
Summary 🟢 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Illinois Institute of Technology (Engineering)
- College/School: IIT Partnership
- Curriculum section: Engineering / Computer Science / CDM
- Catalog: IIT 340
- Last Verified: 2026-05-28
Course access
- Level: green (
Open Enrollment) - Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
- Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Appears in the current official DePaul course catalog search.
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/iit
- Last verified: 2026-05-28
Catalog description
The goals of this course are to give the student an understanding of the physical and operational principles behind important electronic devices such as transistors and solar cells. Semiconductor electron and hole concentrations, carrier transport, and carrier generation and recombination are discussed. P-N junction operation and its application to diodes, solar cells, and LEDs are developed. The field-effect transistor (FET) and bipolar junction transistor (BJT) are then discussed and their terminal operation developed. Application of transistors to bipolar and CMOS analog and digital circuits is introduced. (Taught at Illinois Institute of Technology as ECE 430.) (4.5 quarter hours)
Hardware relevance
Hands-on labs, fabrication, instrumentation, or physical production technology described in the official catalog course description.
Documented resource links
EXT-016
- Relationship: taught_at_partner
- Rationale: DePaul catalog lists this course as taught at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) under the DePaul–IIT joint engineering programs.
- Source URLs:
- catalog.depaul.edu/student-handbooks/undergraduate/univers…
- www.iit.edu/ugaa/joint-programs/depaul-university
- catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/iit
- Resource page: EXT-016
Notes
Catalog course key: IIT 340. Course offerings and schedules are not verified in this pass.