Teaching

Department of Engineering,
Material on those courses will become available during Michaelmas 2013*


Exposition (Part IA)

  • Communication skills training on professional subjects.

  • Timetable Michaelmas 2013 [pdf]

  • Exercise A - The CAPE conference - Intro [pdf]

  • Exercise B - Report Writing - Intro [pdf]

  • Exercise C - The Hot Debate [pdf]

  • Literature: D. MacKay - Sustainable Energy [link]


3B5 Semiconductor Engineering (Part IIA)

  • Basic physics of semiconductors, junctions and related devices.

  • Timetable Michaelmas 2013 [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]

  • Examples paper 3 [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]

  • Examples paper 4 [pdf]


3B5 Laboratory - Schottky Barrier Diode (Part IIA)

  • Solid state device characterisation.

  • Lab handout [pdf]


SB3 Data logger project (Part IIA)

  • Embedded electronic system design including hardware, firmware and software components.

4C3 Electrical and Nano Materials (Part IIB)

  • Processing, characterisation and properties of modern electrical materials.

  • Timetable Michaelmas 2013 [pdf]

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

    • Materias for Permanent Magnet Applicaions [pdf]

    • Bulk High Tc Superconductors for high Field Applications [pdf]

    • Pyroelectric Materials for IR Detector Applications [pdf]

    • Piezoelectric Materials for Acoustic Applications [pdf]

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

    • Historical Perspective

    • Gas Kinetics and vacuum technology

    • Thin film deposition methods

    • Characterisation of thin films, nano materials and surfaces

  • Part 3: Microcircuits [pdf][pdf pt2] - 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