| 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/ |
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Area of Education: Technology Subject area: Physics |
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| Advancement level
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| Aim: The course intends to provide an interdisciplinary and integrated education, and bring students an intimacy to the real engineering world by means of the project work on a practical product â?" sensor devices with large innovation and application possibilities. Through the course, students are expected to enrich their professional engineering knowledge and skills directly related to the project work, and to understand the technical importance and strategic value of their work. Furthermore, the course would also provide students the infrastructure for the project management (to link with the use of LIPS), such that students may have a possibility to work as a team on the project in an industry-like environment. 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 sensors are also developed as robust biosensors for in vivo measurements in the body. |
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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. (1) Semiconductor technology/microchip fabrication/semiconductor physics; (2) Surface physics/materials physics; (3) Bio-analysis methods, chemical sensor technologies and 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 will use the project model "Linkoping Interactive Project Steering (LIPS)". After some introductory lectures, students will be organized in several groups, and devote most of their time to complete a project on one particular sensor device in research labs. The course is scheduled during the entire spring semester. |
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| Course contents: Through planned 16-20 hr 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 and material preparation; (2) device physics and processing technology, (3) thin film technology, (4) sensor physics, detection mechanisms including surface catalytic reactions, etc.. 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 dedicated sensor systems (C). The students should then work out the design of the device layout and the process flow, and find a proper choice of the substrate and gate materials (D). They should perform material characterization, processing of components, measurements of sensor functions and finally identify the missing steps in order to be able to include the sensor in a sensorsystem (I). 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 (O). |
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| Course literature: Book chapters, review articles, and course notes, selected and edited by organizers and guest lecturers (experts in the areas). |
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| Group working report and conference presentation followed by a question session. (U,G) |
5 p |
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| 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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