Lecture Notes

This section provides a complete set of lecture notes for the course. Most of the lectures also include an annotated lecture file. The annotated lecture files include comments that the professor uses to demonstrate how the material progresses.

Ses # Topics Lecture Notes Annotated Lecture Notes
Fundamentals
L1 Overview of 6.012 (PDF)  
L2 Introduction to Semiconductors: Electrons and Holes, Donors and Acceptors (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
L3 Carrier Transport: Drift and Diffusion (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
MOSFET
L4 Electrostatics in Semiconductors

The "60 mV Rule"		 (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
L5 p-n Junction Electrostatics in Thermal Equilibrium (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
L6 p-n Junction Electrostatics under Bias, Depletion Capacitance (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
L7 MOS Electrostatics at 0 V (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
L8 MOS Electrostatics under Bias, MOS Capacitance (PDF) (PDF)
L9 MOSFET: I-V Characteristics (Qualitative, Linear) (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
L10 MOSFET: I-V Characteristics (Saturation, Back Bias) (PDF) (PDF)
L11 MOSFET Equivalent Circuit Models (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
Digital Circuits
L12 Logic Concepts

Inverter Characteristics

NMOS Inverter		 (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
L13 CMOS Inverter

Transfer Characteristics		 (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
L14 CMOS Inverter (cont.)

Delay

CMOS Scaling, VLSI		 (PDF) (PDF)
Bipolar Transistor
L15 p-n Junction Diode I-V Characteristics (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
L16 p-n Junction Equivalent Circuit Models, Charge Storage, Diffusion Capacitance (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)
L17 BJT Electrostatics, Forward Active Regime (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
L18 Other Regimes of Operation of BJT

Equivalent Circuit Models		 (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
Analog Circuits
L19 Single-stage Amplifiers

Common-source Amplifier Stage		 (PDF) (PDF)
L20 Other MOSFET Amplifier Stages (PDF) (PDF)
L21 Multistage Amplifiers (PDF) (PDF)
L22 Current Sources and Sinks (PDF) (PDF)
L23 Frequency Response of Common-source Amplifier (PDF) (PDF)
L24 Miller Effect, Open-circuit Time Constant Technique (PDF)  
L25 Frequency Response of other Amplifier Stages (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF) (PDF)
L26 6.012 Wrap-up: Key Conclusions (PDF) (PDF)