Multi-media educational materials for microelectronic device course

Microsoft Power Point (PPT) is used to develop a multimedia teaching and learning tools for microelectronic courses. The physical processes in semiconductor are usually difficult to visualize and to understand for students. The instructor also usually feels not easy to express clear and strong enough to convince the students. The PPT slides developed are to demonstrate the operating principles of solid state devices. It is difficult to imagine a complete transistor energy band variation with different bias conditions where two or more junctions are involved. PPT provides a simple yet useful animated function, which could implement to microelectronic lectures conveniently. It also increases the applicability of the course lectures to Web-linked materials which benefit to both students and faculty.