Texas Instruments · 21 hours ago
Analog IC Design Engineering Intern (GaN)
4555 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, US
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$31/hr - $45/hr
3+ years expTexas Instruments is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips. As a GaN analog design intern, you will focus on new GaN device design, testing, and characterization, helping to benchmark and modify device and process technology to meet customer needs.
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Responsibilities
Design, optimize, and TCAD model power and optoelectronic devices to understand device performance and bottlenecks arising from device construction
Define and develop mixed optical and electrical test and characterization infrastructure
Take on-wafer and in-package electrical tests: IVs, breakdown and CV tests
Take optical test data: Impact of different wavelength (visible-UV) light illumination
Analyze data and quantify generation efficiency, IQE, impact of BEOL metals on optical flux
Study changes in electrical characteristics of device: VT/IDSAT/RDSON vs. optical flux
Define compact modeling requirements for such opto-electronic devices
Work with circuit designers and system engineers to understand desired device figures-of-merit to guarantee competitive advantage in customer use-cases
Come up with novel device architectures to address device and system requirements
Perform process flow simulations and recipe-optimization to realize those device-architectures, in collaboration with the process development teams
Qualification
Required
Ph.D. degree or currently working towards a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Alternatively, masters degree with 3+ years of experience
GPA of 3.0 or higher
Preferred
Strong background in GaN device physics, characterization, GaN compact modeling, optical testing and GaN processing
Familiarity with GaN-process and device TCAD
Experience in semiconductor technology development, modeling, test development, device/module qualification, Verilog-A coding, lab-management
Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
Course work completed in: Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Process Technology and Device design, Integrated Circuit Design (Digital, Analog, Radio Frequency and Mixed Signal), Power Systems, Power Electronics, Compact modeling
Ability to measure, quantify and come up with device solutions to improve optical performance of power devices
Ability to test and characterize devices IV, CV, BV and study parametric response to optics
On-wafer probe testing experience in both electrical and optical domains: Usage experience in handling B1500, SMUs, CMUs, probes
Experience with device simulator tools like Sentaurus, Cadence, ADS, Verilog-A
Ideal candidate must also excel at promoting new ideas, building collaborative relationships, working across organizations
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
Benefits
Competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life
Company
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments is a global semiconductor company that manufactures, designs, tests, and sells embedded and analog processing chips.
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