Teaching

Department of Engineering,
Material on those courses will become available during Michaelmas 2016*

Exposition (Part IA)

• Communication skills training on professional subjects.

• Timetable Michaelmas 2016 pdf

• Introduction to Exercise A: Nanotech Conference pdf

• Celebrate National Nanotechnology Day [ACS link]

• Accuracy and Errors in Experimental Engineering [pdf]

• Info for Exercise B [pdf]

• Exercise B - Sample Report 1[pdf]

• Exercise B - Sample Report 2[pdf]

• Statics Lab Intro [pdf]

• Info for Exercise C: Sustainable Energy without the hot air - D. MacKay

• Info for Exercise C: Sustainable Materials with both eyes open - J. Allwood

• Exercise C - structure of debate [pdf]

3B5 Semiconductor Engineering (Part IIA)

• Basic physics of semiconductors, junctions and related devices.

• Timetable Michaelmas 2016 [pdf]

• Lecture 9: The pn Junction diode[pdf]

• Lecture 10: The Continuity Equation [pdf]

• Lecture 11: Current Flow in the p+n Junction [pdf]

• Lecture 12: Metal-Semiconductor Junctions [pdf]

• Lecture 13: The BJT & HBT [pdf]

• Lecture 14: The JFET, MESFET & HEMT [pdf]

• Lecture 15: The MOSFET (Part I) [pdf]

• Lecture 16: The MOSFET (Part II) [pdf]

• 3B5 examples paper 3 [pdf]

• 3B5 examples paper 4 [pdf]

• Computer History Museum [link]

3B5 Laboratory - Schottky Barrier Diode (Part IIA)

• Solid state device characterisation.

• Lab handout [pdf]

4C3 Electrical and Nano Materials (Part IIB)

• Processing, characterisation and properties of modern electrical materials.

• Timetable Michaelmas 2016 [pdf]

• Part 1 :Bulk Electrical Materials - Dr John H. Durrell

  • Materials for Permanent Magnet Applicaions

  • Bulk High Tc Superconductors for High Field Applications

  • Pyroelectric Materials for IR Detector Applications

  • Piezoelectric Materials for Acoustic Applications

• Part2: Thin Film Technology - Dr S Hofmann [pdf-part1] [pdf-part2]

  • Historical Perspective

  • Gas Kinetics and vacuum technology

  • Thin film deposition methods

  • Characterisation of thin films, nano materials and surfaces

• Part 3: Microcircuits - Prof J. Robertson

  • Quantum Mechanics, Bonds and Bands in Solids

  • Semiconductors, insulators

  • Materials for Si integrated circuits

  • Optoelectronics

  • Large area materials and Nano-materials

* Note: pdf files are Raven protected