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  • General

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      Course brochure File
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      Course schedule File
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      Results of exam April 13, 2022 (updated) File
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      Results from exam May 9, 2022 (modified) File
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  • Lectures

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    Lecture 1 - Introduction to course & From micro- to nanoelectronics

    Additional material:

    https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/0_2015-ITRS-2.0-Executive-Report-1.pdf
    ”International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors 2.0 - 2015 Edition - Executive Report”
    Skim through:
    -Executive summary
    -Chapter 1 (Introduction: The ever changing environment)
    -Chapter 8 (More Moore)
    -Chapter 9 (Driving the IC industry to the limit of CMOS and beyond)

    “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom”:
    http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html

    Semiconductor device fabrication:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_device_fabrication



  • Group work

    Exercise session Week 2 (March 9): Group members interact and topic is finalized. 

    Exercise session Week  4 (March 23): Discussion on the resources collected and utilizing them

    Exercise session Week 6 (April 6): Presentations


  • Exam April 13

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    We will use an open-book online exam, scheduled for the same time as the regular exam was planned for.

    You are allowed to use available online and offline litterature resources freely, but we prohibit you from seeking assistance from others for the answering.

    We will upload the exam questions here by 13.00 on Wednesday, April 13.
    The handing in of the exam questions will be in the box below 3 hours later at 16.00 on Wednesday, April 13.

    We accept as answers photos or scanned versions of hand-written notes and figures, and documents written by you in a word processor and figures made by you in graphics software on your computer.

    If possible, compile your answers to a single pdf or doc/docx document that you submit in the box below.

    (You can in principle upload your answers in suitable electronic format that is commonly accessible to open, for example txt, docx, pdf, jpg, png, but the maximum number of separate files is limited to 20.)

    During exam please contact harri.lipsanen@aalto.fi if you have any questions.

  • Exam May 9

    Not available unless: You belong to L01 (SISU)

    We will use an open-book online exam, scheduled for the same time as the regular exam was planned for.

    You are allowed to use available online and offline literature resources freely, but we prohibit you from seeking assistance from others for the answering.

    We will upload the exam questions here by 16.30 on Wednesday, May 9.
    The handing in of the exam questions will be in the box below 3 hours later at 19:30.

    We accept as answers photos or scanned versions of hand-written notes and figures, and documents written by you in a word processor and figures made by you in graphics software on your computer.

    If possible, compile your answers to a single pdf or doc/docx document that you submit in the box below.

    (You can in principle upload your answers in suitable electronic format that is commonly accessible to open, for example txt, docx, pdf, jpg, png, but the maximum number of separate files is limited to 20.)

    During or before exam please contact harri.lipsanen@aalto.fi if you have any questions.