Lectures

Lectures at the Institute for Large Area Microelectronics

Winter Semester

Lecturer: Prof. Norbert Frühauf

  • Introduction
  • Voltage and electric current
  • Ohm's Law
  • Electric power
  • Kirchhoff's Laws
  • Network analysis
  • Electric field
  • Capacities
  • Magnetic field
  • Induction Law

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Lecturer: Prof. Norbert Frühauf

  • Introduction
  • Mathematical foundations
  • RLC-Two-Poles
  • Realization of filters
  • Transformation of RLC-circuits into RC-active circuits
  • Synthesis of reactance four-poles
  • RC-active circuits
  • Synthesis of distributed circuits of grade two
  • Sensitivity theory
  • Optimization of distributed circuits
  • Switched Capacitor filter

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Lecturer: Prof. Norbert Frühauf

This lecture is only available in English

  • Introduction and overview
  • Vacuum thin film technology:
    vacuum technology, vapor deposition, sputtering, plasma deposition, growth and properties of thin films.
  • Non-vacuum deposition:
    spin coating, printing, chemical deposition
  • Materials for substrates and surface treatment
  • Structuring of thin films
  • Metrology

Lecturer: Dr. Hagen Klauk

      • Overview:
        applications for organic transistors, economical considerations, realizations and general properties of organic transistors
      • Electronic properties of conjugated carbohydrates:
        localized and delocalized molecular orbitals, energy of orbitals
      • Electronic properties of organic solid state structures:
        crystalline structure, dispersion, charge transport in partially crystalline layers
      • Structure and implementation of organic transistors:
        selection of materials, stack, processing
      • Functionality of organic transistors:
        channel, carrier injection, band model, analytic description of the characteristics
      • Frequency dependence of organic transistors:
        analysis and optimization of the frequency limit
      • Applications for organic transistors:
        flat panel displays, integrated circuits

Summer Semester

Lecturer: Prof. Norbert Frühauf

  • Inductances
  • Sinusoidally alternating quantities
  • Circuits at alternating currents
  • General two-poles
  • Modulated sources
  • Resonant circuits

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Lecturer: Prof. Norbert Frühauf

  • Overview:
    cathode ray tubes, flat panel display technologies, current technologies
  • Physiology of sight:
    color theory, CIE 1931 color space, color filters
  • Fundamentals of liquid crystal technology:
    electro mechanical properties, variation of the potential energy, twisted and non-twisted lc cells
  • Light propagation in optically anisotrope uni-axial media:
    Jones vectors and Jones matrices
  • Liquid crystal technologies:
    optical transmission through the Freedericksz cell, vertically aligned and twisted nematic cells, surface stabilized ferro electric lc cells
  • Control of lc cells:
    direct addressing, passive matrix, active matrix

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Lecturer: Prof. Norbert Frühauf

This course is only offered in English

  • Mathematic description of optical signals and optical systems
  • Analogue optical signal processing:
    Fourier-transformation of optical signals, optical filters
  • Optical storage:
    CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, holography
  • Optical sensors
  • Digital optical signal processing.

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