Physical Electronics and Nanotechnology

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Physical Electronics and Nanotechnology

• Jim Coleman

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Consumer Electronics Cell Phone Photos
Amelia and Lucy share cell phone photos.
to send to Auntie Catrina in Scotland.
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Infrastructure of Information Age

• Microelectronics
• Infrastructure of information computation
  technology
• Model, design, fabrication technology, and device
  implementation
• Photonics
• Infrastructure of communication networks
• Model, design, fabrication technology, and device
  implementation
• Nanotechnology
• Infrastructure of tomorrows information
  technology and biotechnology.

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Strong Laboratory Support and Rich Tradition

• Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory clean room
• 8000 ft2 clean room facility, among the finest in
  the country
• Equipment capable of writing 10 nm fine lines
• Expansion completed Dec 2006
• ECE Undergraduate Fab Lab (ECE444)

Bardeen and co-workers invented the transistor
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Microelectronic Quantum Electronic Courses

• Microelectronics
• ECE 440 Solid state electronic devices
  (required)
• ECE398JC Electronic and photonic devices
• (This course fulfills the ECE 440 requirement for
  graduation)
• ECE 447 Microwave circuit design
• ECE 451 Automated microwave measurement
• ECE 457 Microwave devices and circuits
• Device Fabrication
• ECE 444 Theory and fabrication of integrated
  circuit devices
• ECE 484 Principles of advanced microelectronics
  processing
• ECE 485 Introduction to microelectromechanical
  systems
• Photonics
• ECE 455 Optical electronics
• ECE 487 Introduction to quantum mechanics
• ECE 488 Compound semiconductors and devices
• ECE 495 Projects in quantum electronics