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Instructor: Mansun Chan
Instructor: Mansun Chan
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Information on This Class
Personnel and Basic Information
Instructor: Mansun Chan, Room 2519
Office Hour: any time you can find me
TA: Zubair AHMED (zahmed@ust.hk)
Yihan CHEN (ychenaq@ust.hk)
Suwen LI (sliao@ust.hk)
Lab: - 1 Lab in NFF,
- 3 Labs in Room 3121
Textbook: No specific textbook
- if you really want one, a free textbook can
be found at http://ecee.colorado.edu/~bart/book/

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A Little Bit More about Me
More Background
My specialty is in semiconductor, but most of my recent activities
are not in the technical area
I was once a qualified CFA (with a master degree in Finance)
I am managing some venture capital and investment in tech
companies
I have been doing corporate training in creativity and management
I have also found some companies and the most recent one is a
game/education business
I am one of the founding members of the Hong Kong Board Game
Designer Association
I also have professional certificates in graphic design
You are welcome to talk to me in any subjects beyond the class
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Pre-requisite
Chemistry
Actually you do not need to take any chemistry from the
university
As long as you know the periodic table and atomic
structure is good enough
ELEC2400
It is the planned pre-requisite in the final 4-year program
In the transition, ELEC2410 was offer instead and it can be
used to replace ELEC2400
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Philosophy of ELEC3500 [1]
Learn to study SMART, not study hard
50% versus 90% knowledge
qualitative rather than quantitative
Overview versus details
most important, develop common sense (which is
usually not common)
Learning concept
Many things can be learnt, but not taught
Advanced versus fundamental knowledge
knowledge vs application of knowledge
thinking vs memorization
Active learning: you have to ask a lot of questions
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Problem with conventional teaching
Current education system was developed in the industrial
revolution and does not evolve to the information era
Teaching knowledge, but not how to apply the knowledge
Obedience is more important than creativity
School never tells students that the taught knowledge may
become obsolete upon graduation
Question
3 months after taking a class, how much material can
you still recall?
Conclusion
I dont expect you can remember what you learned in this class
Remembering them is useless anyway because they will
become obsolete in 3-5 years
Philosophy of ELEC3500 [2]
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What should be your focus in this class then?
The language used for the subject so that you can talk like
an expert
Make approximate guesses rather than exact calculation
Know where to find the require information when needed
Understand that you need to learn something new every
3-5 years
Relax and get the big picture first before going to the details
Engineering Approach
Solving a problem with approximate rather than perfect solution
If you are given a poor invention, you can make a poor product
that works half the time and sell at half the price
Philosophy of ELEC3500 [3]
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Difference between Scientist and Engineer
Scientists focus on perfect knowledge
Engineers focus on applications and efficient solution
Science is mostly a bottom approach, start from a
phenomena and look for application
Engineering is supposed to be a top down approach
starting with a problem and look for THE MOST
EFFICIENT solution
Example
How do you prove f(x)=g(x) if you are a mathematician?
What would you do if you are an engineer?
Engineer
Businessmen
Scientists
- Work with people
- topdown
- response
- Work with objects
- bottomup
- knowledge
Philosophy of ELEC3500 [4]
What do I expect from you
learn to be an engineer (decision maker), not a technician
(machine operator)
communicate well with me or your TAs about your difficulty
focus on the learning rather than the grade (or you will be
very frustrated)
If something is beyond your ability, take it as a blackbox
and understand the input and output
Enjoy the class
What do you expect from this class
you better tell me
Best strategy to take the class
going for a C and get a C ! (for undergraduate)
going for a B and get a B (for post-graduate)
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Philosophy of ELEC3500 [5]
Topics to be Covered in ELEC3500 [1]
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Design
Device
Operation
Fabrication
Process
System
Products
Package
PN Junctions and its applications
Current voltage characteristics
varactor (variable capacitor)
Solar cell
photo-diode (light sensors)
BJT and its applications
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Semiconductor and Silicon Physics
Band diagram
Fermi-Dirac Statistics
Doping of silicon
IC Fabrication Process
You will have a chance to see how a cleanroom operates
Topics to be Covered in ELEC3500 [2]
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MOSFET and its circuit applications
Technology scaling and nano-CMOS
Circuit Design Techniques
SOI and Thin-Film Transistor (TFT)
Passive and Active Display Technology
Compound Semiconductor
Light Emitting Diodes (LED)
High Speed Devices
MOS Capacitor and its application
Charge-Coupled Devices (CCD)
CMOS Active Pixel Sensor (APS)
Topics to be Covered in ELEC3500 [3]
Laboratory
There are only 4 labs, and take place approximately once
every two-three weeks
One labs will be in NFF and some other labs in Room 3121
One sub-grade will be deducted for missing any of the
above labs
Tutorial
mainly for discussion of HW and Laboratories
provide examples to the concepts covered in the lectures
provide a different perspective to the material covered
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Components of ELEC3500 [1]
General Approach
The class is designed to be the last class in the
semiconductor area (not to prepare you for another class)
Try to train you to make guesses and quick decision
Final Exam
not testing your knowledge, but how you apply your
knowledge
interview and IQ test like (85% thinking, 15% writing)
you may bring along almost anything during exams
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Homework
encourage discussion, thinking and self-learning
solutions are usually given in the tutorial
discuss with others, seek help from TA or myself
do NOT spend >1 hours THINKING about one problem
Quizzes
encourage periodic clear up of concept
close book, close notes, ~10 minutes with short questions
once for every two weeks
Components of ELEC3500 [2]
I discourage arguing about scores and
grades, but welcome discussion of problems
Approximate grade distribution
10% Homework
24% quizzes
16% Labs
50% final exam
You get an automatic A if you score over
80% in the final (and attend the first 2 labs)
Grading of ELEC3500
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Difficulties of the Course
It is a class that require quick thinking, NOT hardwork
No text book for the up-to-date material
Missing lecture(s) is not encouraged
Material built on top of each other, cleaning up
concept after each lecture is a must
A privately quoted comment:
- coverage of the course is extensive
- reason: whatever not covered in the lecture is covered
in the exam
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You may feel that you understand the material, but
you will still be confused during the tests
OBE (Outcome Based Education) Definition
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remember the operation of a cleanroom
communicate with the language of semiconductor (diode, BJT,
MOSFET, doping, Fermi-level, drift-diffusion etc.
operate a probe-station
describe the basic principles of some common circuit active
elements plus photo active devices (solar cell, LED, CCD)
describe the effects of changing the key physical parameters
of diode, BJT and MOSFET on the trend (increase or
decrease) of the output characteristics
match a given model to measurement data by selecting
relevant parameters
Students will be able to
Real OBE for You and I
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Your Long Term OBE
To learn something useful for your career?
Your Short Term OBE
To obtain the highest grade with the minimum effort, and
hopefully learn something to get my first job
My Long Term OBE
To help you to be a successful person in the society so that
by connecting to you, I may gain some advantage
My Short Term OBE
To use minimum effort to get the job done with the least
complain from both the students and the department