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Valid for year : 2007
 
TFYA05 Project Course in Physics - Design and Fabrication of Sensor Chip, CDIO, 7,5 ECTS credits.
/Projektkurs i fysik, design, tillverkning och test av sensor-chip, CDIO/

For:   Y   YMP  

 

Prel. scheduled hours:
Rec. self-study hours: 200

  Area of Education: Technology

Subject area: Physics
  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
The course intends to provide an interdisciplinary and integrated education, and bring students an intimacy to the real engineering world by means of a project work on a practical product â?" sensor devices with large innovation and application possibilities. Through the course, the students will enrich their professional engineering knowledge and skills directly related to the project work, and to the understanding of the technical importance and strategic value of their work. Furthermore, the course will also provide the students the infrastructure for the project management (to link with the use of LIPS), such that students will be able to work as a team on the project in an industry-like environment.

Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
The knowledge from the following courses is desirable, but not compulsory.
  1. Semiconductor technology, Microchip fabrication, Semiconductor physics
  2. Surface physics, Materials physics;
  3. 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.
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 is scheduled during the entire spring semester.
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. This type of sensor is also developed as robust biosensors for in vivo measurements in the body. Through planned 16-20 hr of lectures, students will learn about the work background, work methods, and some basic knowledge required for the project work, including
  1. wideband gap semiconductor physics;
  2. device physics and processing technology,
  3. thin film technology,
  4. sensor physics, detection mechanisms including surface catalytic reactions, etc.
  5. 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: (
  • 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 missing steps in order to be able to include the sensor in a sensor system are identified.
  • This sensor system should be possible to used in the exhaust system of a car, in the flue gases of a house hold boiler, for process control during hydrogen production from e.g. bacterias, or to measure pH in the stomach.


Course literature:
Book chapters, review articles, and course notes, selected and edited by organizers and guest lecturers (experts in the areas).
Examination:
Group working report and conference presentation followed by a question session. (U,G)
 5 p
/
7,5 ECTS
 
Grades are given as â?~Failâ?T or â?~Passâ?T.


Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IFM.
Director of Studies: Leif Johansson
Examiner: Anita Lloyd Spetz

Course Syllabus in Swedish

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Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
Last updated: 03/04/2007