ECE 565
Fall 2011 All Classes
Credit: 4 hours.
Power dissipation in modern electronics, from fundamentals to system-level issues. Energy transfer through electrons and phonons, mobility and thermal conductivity, power dissipation in modern devices (CMOS, memory, nanowires, nanotubes), circuit leakage, thermal breakdown, interconnects, thermometry, heat sinks. Handouts are supplemented with papers from the research literature, Wikipedia assignments, a final conference-type group paper, and oral presentations required.
Prerequisite: ECE 441.
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59018
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Lecture
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F
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2:00PM
-3:20PM
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TR
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143 Everitt Laboratory
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Pop, E
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