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Project Course in Physics - Design and Fabrication of Sensor Chip, CDIO, 12 ECTS credits.
/Projektkurs i fysik, design, tillverkning och test av sensor-chip, CDIO/
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The Entrepreneurship part overlap with other CDIO courses and cannot be included more than once in a degree.
Exchange students may apply for the course after arrival to LiTH but before it starts. The international officer for exchange studies must be contacted before applying.
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 42
Rec. self-study hours: 278
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Area of Education: Technology
Main field of studies: Physics, Applied Physics
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Advancement level
(G1, G2, A): A
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Aim:
The goal of the course is to provide an interdisciplinary and integrated education, and bring the students closer to the real engineering world by means of a project work on a practical product â?" sensor devices - with large innovation and application possibilities. After the course, the students should be enriched in their professional engineering knowledge and skills related to the project work, and to the understanding of the technical importance and strategic value of their work. Furthermore, the course should also provide the students the infrastructure for the project management (linked with the use of LIPS), such that the students will be able to work as a team in a project in an industry-like environment.
A purpose for the course is also for the students to acquire knowledge and abilities within the general area of entrepreneurship, with particular focus on business planning for new ventures. After the course, students should be able to:
- account for models that describe what it takes for a new venture to have a stable basis for further development and to asess the level of development of ventures using such models; and
- account for the information and analyses needed to evaluate a development project from a business point of view and have the ability to collect and analyse relevant information for the purpose.
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Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
The knowledge from the following courses is desirable, but not compulsory:Semiconductor technology, Microchip fabrication, Semiconductor physics , Surface physics, Materials physics;, Sensor technology, Bio-analytical methods, Contemporary sensor systems
Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
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Organisation:
The course follows the "Conceive Design Interact Operate (CDIO)" program at LiU and the project model "Linkoping Interactive Project Steering (LIPS)" is used. A number of introductory lectures in the beginning give basic knowledge for the project work. Then the students are organized in several groups, and devote most of their time to complete a project on a particular sensor device which is developed and tested in the research lab.
The course runs over the entire autumn semester.
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Course contents:
The sensors in this project will be of high technological and commercial value with applications for example for monitoring of emissions in car exhausts or in flue gases from boilers. 15 hr of lectures, students will learn about the work background, work methods, and some basic knowledge required for the project work, including
- wide bandgap semiconductor physics,
- device physics and processing technology,
- thin film technology,
- sensor physics, detection mechanisms including surface catalytic reactions, etc.
- data collection and data evaluation
The project work starts with a general investigation to understand the R & D background, technological and social demands, and required new innovations of the sensor devices to be used in the dedicated sensor system:
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- The students design the device layout and the process flow, and perform a proper choice of the substrate and gate materials
- They take part in material characterization, processing of components, and the mounting of the sensors
- They characterize the sensors through measurements and evaluation of sensor functions and characteristics.
- Finally the students should provide a general discussion about the usefulness of the sensors in a real application like control of the combustion in car exhausts or in the flue gases of domestic boilers.
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Course literature:
Book chapters, review articles, and lecture notes, selected and edited by organizers and guest lecturers (experts in the areas).
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Examination: |
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Group working report and conference presentation followed by a question session.
Entrepreneurship assignments
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9 ECTS
3 ECTS
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The work of the group is presented in written reports, which follow the LIPS documents, a poster and an oral presentation at a project conference, where the group will also answer questions about the project.
Grades are given as â?~Failâ?T or â?~Passâ?T. |
Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IFM.
Director of Studies: Magnus Johansson
Examiner: Donatella Puglisi
Link to the course homepage at the department
Course Syllabus in Swedish
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