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Fall 2011 Lecture Notes:

No. Date Lecture Module PDF
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Reading
1 Aug. 25 Administrative Information, MEMS Roadmaps, Benefits of Miniaturization [PDF] [PDF]
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S: §1.1-1.4
2 Aug. 30 Benefits of Scaling I: faster speed (transistors, micromechanical resonators) [PDF] [PDF]
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3 Sept. 1 Benefits of Scaling II: lower power consumption (micro-ovens)   [PDF]
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4 Sept. 6 Benefits of Scaling III: higher sensitivity (gas sensors)   [PDF]
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5 Sept. 8 Fabrication Process Modules I: oxidation, film deposition, lithography [PDF] [PDF]
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S: §3.1-3.2.3,  §3.2.6,  §3.3.1
J: §2.1,  §2.3-2.5,  §3.1-3.3,  §3.6,  §6.1-6.3
6 Sept. 13 Fabrication Process Modules II: etching, ion implantation, diffusion [PDF] [PDF]
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S: §3.2.5,  §3.3.4.1,  §3.3.5-3.3.6
J: §2.2,  §4.1-4.5,  §5.1-5.5
7 Sept. 15 Surface Micromachining I: basic polysilicon process flow, release, sacrificial & structural material choices   [PDF]
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S: §4.1-4.4
J: §11.4.1-11.4.2
8 Sept. 20 Surface Micromachining II: 2nd order issues, stiction, residual stress, electroplating, 3D out-of-plane MEMS [PDF] [PDF]
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S: §8.3,  §13.2.3
J: §11.4.3-11.4.4
9 Sept. 22 Surface Micromachining III: MUMPS, design rules, Summit   [PDF]
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Handout
10 Sept. 27 Bulk Micromachining: wet etch-based, dissolved wafer process, SOI MEMS, Scream, Hexsil MEMS, sealed cavity deep RIE   [PDF]
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S: §3.3.4.2-3.3.4.3
J: §11.2-11.3,  §11.6
11 Sept. 30 Mechanics of Materials for MEMS I: stress, strain, material properties, measurement & characterization of mechanical parameters. [PDF] [PDF]
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S: §8.1-8.2,  §8.4
12 Oct. 3 Mechanics of Materials for MEMS II: quality factor, beam bending [PDF] [PDF]
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S: §7.2.2,  §9.1-9.3
13 Oct. 6 Machanics of Materials for MEMS III: practical stress, beam combos, stressed folded flexures   [PDF]
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14 Oct. 11 Energy Methods I: virtual work, energy formulations, tapered beam example [PDF] [PDF]
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S: §10.1-10.3
15 Oct. 13 Energy Methods II: clampled-clamped beam example, large deflection analysis, estimating resonance frequency [PDF] [PDF] S: §10.5
16 Oct. 18 Equivalent Circuits I: dynamic mass, stiffness, and damping, example: free-free beam, lumped mass-spring-damper circuit   [PDF]
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S: §10.5.2,  Handout
17 Oct. 20* Equivalent Circuits II: electromechanical analogies, lossless transducers   [PDF]
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S: §5.1-5.6,  Handout
18 Oct. 25 Lossless Transducers I: capacitive transducers, charge control, voltage control, spring suspended C, parallel-plate capacitive transducer, pull-in, linearization [PDF]
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S: §6.1-6.4
  Oct. 27 MIDTERM EXAM      
19 Nov. 1 Lossless Transducers II: electrical stiffness, comb drive, levitation [PDF]
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[PDF] Handouts
20 Nov. 3 Equivalent Circuits III: input modeling, force-to-velocity relationship & circuit, intro. to gyroscopes [PDF] [PDF]
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S: §6.6, §19.1-19.2, §21.1-21.2
21 Nov. 8 Equivqalent Circuits IV: output modeling, input-to-output transconductance, complete equivalent circuit   [PDF]
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Handout
22 Nov. 10 Sensing Circuits I: ideal op amps, velocity sensing, position sensing   [PDF]
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S: §14.9, §14.11.2,
23 Nov. 15 Sensing Circuits II: differential position sensing, MEMS/transistor integration [PDF] [PDF]
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S: §19.1-19.4,
J: §7.7, §9.3, §11.7
24 Nov. 17 Sensing Circuits III: non-ideal op amps, begin noise   [PDF]
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S: §14.10-14.11, S: Chpt 15
25 Nov. 22 Sensor Resolution I: noise sources, noise calculation, min. detectable signal [PDF]
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S: §16.1, §16.3-16.6
  Nov. 24 THANKSGIVING - HOLIDAY      
26 Nov. 29 Sensor Resolution II: noise calculation examples, gyro example   [PDF]
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Handouts
27 Dec. 1 MEMS-Transistor Integration: mixed, MEMS-first, MEMS-last   [PDF]
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Handouts
  Dec. 6 Reading/Recitation/Review Day - No Lecture      
  Dec. 8 Reading/Recitation/Review Day - No Lecture      
  Dec. 13 FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, Dec. 13, 8-11 a.m.      

NOTE:  * The asterisks indicate days that I ll not be in town. On these dates, I will make appropriate arrangements for the lecture, which will probably entail doing and recording
(for website posting) a make-up lecture at a specified time and location.


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