MOSFET
PRESENTED BY
VIVEK KRISHNA KANNAN
SIDDARTH RAM MOHAN ARUN
WHAT IS A MOSFET?
• Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
• Three-terminal device: Source, Drain and Gate
• Transistors are used for switching and amplification in circuits
THINGS TO KNOW
• A semiconductor (eg: Si) has an electrical conductivity value between
a conductor and an insulator.
• Current conduction occurs through free movement of electrons or holes.
• Doping introduces impurities into a pure semiconductor for the purpose of
modulating its electrical properties.
HOW DOPING WORKS
DEVICE STRUCTURE OF N-CHANNEL MOSFET
DEVICE STRUCTURE OF ENHANCEMENT MODE
N-CHANNEL MOSFET
• The gate terminal is a conducting surface (Metal)
• The gate terminal is separated by a layer of insulator (oxide) from the
channel
• The (semiconductor) substrate is doped with p-type impurity
• Source and Drain are doped with n-type impurity
• The gate, source and drain have conducting metal contacts
PERSPECTIVE VIEW CROSS SECTIONAL VIEW
DEVICE STRUCTURE OF P-CHANNEL MOSFET
CIRCUIT SYMBOLS COMMONLY USED
FURTHER CLASSIFICATIONS
• In addition to NMOS & PMOS explained earlier, they can in turn be further
classified into
• Enhancement mode
• Depletion mode
WHAT IS ENHANCEMENT MODE ?
• Enhancement mode MOSFETS comes devoid of a “channel”
• Depletion mode comes with a channel by default
• A channel can roughly be described as a conduction path that enables the
MOSFET to work
HOW DOES ENHANCEMENT MOSFET WORK
WITHOUT A CHANNEL ?
• This is where the gate voltage plays a significant part
• Gate voltage serves to create the channel in enhancement mode, while in
depletion mode it cane be used to “deplete” the channel; As in destroy.
• Enhancement mode and depletion mode can be summarized as normally open
and normally closed switches respectively.
CONDUCTION IN AN ENHANCEMENT MODE N-
MOSFET
v Creation of the channel by applying gate voltage
• Threshold voltage : Gate voltage must be higher than
Vt, only then is the conduction path created
v Channel is just the ‘path’; Additional potential
difference is needed to instigate and sustain charge
flow. This is provided by applying a potential
difference voltage between drain and source
terminals
I-V CHARACTERISTICS OF MOSFET
v The plot is between the drain current and the
drain-source voltage, for different values of
gate voltage
v MOSFET operating regions:
• Cutoff mode
• Triode/Linear mode
• Saturation mode
APPLICATIONS
• Microprocessors for switching purposes
• Radio frequency amplifiers