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ENGI4547: Advanced Electronics 4

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Type	Tied
Level	4
Credits	10
Availability	Available in 2024/2025
Module Cap	None.
Location	Durham
Department	Engineering

Prerequisites

ENGI3331

Corequisites

As specified in programme regulations.

Excluded Combinations of Modules

As specified in programme regulations.

Aims

This module is designed solely for students studying Department of Engineering degree programmes.
To provide an overview and describe the characteristics of electronic devices at nanometre scale and their principles of operation.
To explain the technical and economic constraints for the miniaturization and design of electronic devices and solutions.
To introduce and familiarise students with application based device design and analysis.
To provide the technical knowledge of VLSI/MEMs system to understand their functionality and applications.

Content

Scaling laws and fundamental limits.
Computation and energy consumption of electronic devices.
Classical and quantum models for charge transport.
Low dimensional materials: characteristics and applications.
Designs for manufacturing and testing of advanced electronic devices e.g. VLSI, MEMs.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

A knowledge of benefits and limitations of electronic technologies currently used or being developed for computation.
An understanding of the energy cost of computation with increasing speed and device density in electronic components.
An understanding of charge transport mechanism at the nanoscale to design future applications.
A knowledge of trends and developments in advanced electronics design and their underlying physics.

Subject-specific Skills:

An awareness of current technology, analysis methods and industrial practises along with the ability to apply those methods in novel situations.
An in-depth knowledge and understanding of specialised and advanced technical and professional skills, an ability to perform critical assessment and review and an ability to communicate the results of their own work effectively.

Key Skills:

Capacity for independent self-learning within the bounds of professional practice.
Critical assessment of technology challenges and problem solving skills of a design engineer.
Specialised numerical skills appropriate to an engineer.
Mathematics relevant to the application of advanced electronics concepts.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

The module content is delivered in lectures and is reinforced by problem sheets, equipping students with the required problem solving capability.
Students are able to make use of staff 'Tutorial Hours' to discuss any aspect of the module with teaching staff on a one-to-one basis. These are sign up sessions available for up to one hour per week per lecture course.
Written timed examinations are appropriate because of the wide range of analytical, in-depth material covered in this module and allow students to demonstrate the ability to solve advanced problems independently.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total
Lectures	20	Typically 2 per week	1 Hour	20
Tutorial Hours	As required	Weekly sign-up sessions	Up to 1Hour	10
Preparation and Reading				70
Total				100

Summative Assessment

Component: Examination		Component Weighting: 100%
Element	Length / Duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Written Examination	2 hours	100	No

Formative Assessment

N/A

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