Background on Microelectronics
2021
This chapter is titled “Background on Microelectronics.” Material processing, mainly semiconductor and metal, and related physics to fabricate (make) nanostructures and electronic devices, such as transistors, are the subject matter of microelectronics. Before proceeding with nanostructure physics, it is imperative to get acquainted with some basics of microelectronics. This chapter introduces readers to the basics and some essentials of microelectronics. Topics covered are intrinsic, elemental, binary, ternary, and quaternary semiconductors; bandgap engineering; and semiconductor heterojunctions and heterostructures.