Invitation to Electronics

Takeshi KANASHIMA, 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.

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

Lecture Outline
   Introduction (Basics of Electronics)
   Spintronics
   Superconductivity
   Introduction to Semiconductors
   Semiconductor Devices: Transistors
   Diamond Electronics
   Solar Photovoltaics
   Light in Electronics
   Diodes and LEDs
   Optics and Lasers
   Optical Fiber Communications
   Information and Communication
   Time, frequency and atomic clock
   Micro-Mechanical System and its Application to Electronics
   Stabilized laser and its applications

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