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00f-3 Invitation to Electronics

Masahiro KITAGAWA, et al. (Graduate School of Engineering Science)


Objective Electronics appears to be quite a popular technology in everyday life; getting up with an alarm clock, watching the morning news on TV, listening to music from CD, communicating by cellular phone or electronic mail on the Internet, to name a few. It is virtually impossible to imagine life without electronics. Yet not many people know what electronics is all about and what is going on inside the equipment. This course will invite you into the amazing world of electronics, revealing basic principles behind technology, showing how it works, and introducing the current trends and new frontiers. This course is intended for any students who are interested in electronics, regardless of their majors.

Textbook No particular textbook is used. Materials will be provided.

Lecture Outline
Basics of Electronics
What is Electronics?
Circuits: the Bare Essentials
Semiconductor: the Magic
Evolutions of Electronics
Trend of Integrated Circuits
Micro Fabrications
Variations of Electronics (topics will be selected from)
Optics and Lasers
Optical Fiber Communications
Solar Batteries
Infrared Radiations
Time and Frequency
Light in Micro Electronics
Light and Matter in Electronics
Sensor: the Artificial Organ
Diamond Electronics
Medical Application of Superconductivity

Grading Class participation 50%
Term paper, presentation and discussions 50%

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