Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4314939 Advanced Nanoscience and Nanotechnology | OT | 0 | A |
No prerequisites are required for students accepted to the program. It is advisable to have knowledge in electronic devices and their applications.
The course is structured into 5 blocks:
1.- Devices at the nanoscale. Device characterization methods. Advanced Instrumentation.
2.- Failure mechanisms in nanodevices: Dielectric breakdown, Hot Carrier injection (HCI) and BTI. Resistive switching phenomenon in dielectrics and applications. Characterization of Random Telegraph Noise (RTN) in nanodevices.
3.- Effects of variability in nanoscale. Process variability. Degradation mechanisms and time dependent variability. Modeling and simulation of variability in nanodevices.
4.- Reliability in nanoelectronics. Reliability and performance. Reliability models. Reliability test design. Accelerated tests and test conditions.
5.- Advanced electrical characterization at the nanoscale. Operating principles and application to nanoelectronics probes for atomic force conductivity (C-AFM), capacitance (SCM) and contact potential (KPFM). Spreading resistance (SSRM). Other techniques.
Students must attend lectures, problem solving classes / cases / exercises and problem-based learning, with an active participation of students in the classroom. They must also make the presentation and defense of planned activities about specific topics and participate in the practical activities in the lab.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Classes to solve problems / cases / exercises and problem-based learning | 10 | 0.4 | 5, 3, 4, 6, 7, 1 |
Lectures | 12 | 0.48 | 6 |
Oral presentation and discussion of works | 6 | 0.24 | 6, 1 |
Practical activities | 8 | 0.32 | 5, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorials | 8 | 0.32 | 6 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Personal study, reading articles and reports of interest | 60 | 2.4 | 6 |
Preparation of works | 46 | 1.84 | 6, 1, 2 |
Continuous evaluation
A separate evaluation will be made for each of the five blocks into which the course is divided.
For each of the blocks, the evaluation of the level of skills acquisition by the students is made taking into account the activities indicated in the table above, with their weights.
The final mark of the course will correspond to the average of the 5 blocks marks.
To pass the course, the student must have been evaluated of at least 60% of the proposed activities AND obtained an average mark higher than 5.
Final evaluation
In case the student fails during the continuous evaluation, but he/she has been evaluated of at least 60% of the proposed activities, specific tests will be planned for final evaluation, which can be theoretical and / or practical, to retake the failed block(s).
Remarks
Any situation not specified in this document will be analyzed individually.
Assessment procedures may be adjusted, in case that the course development advices to do so.
For each of the blocks, a place, date and hour will be indicated, so that the student can review the evaluation of that block. In case of no-show at the indicated place/date, no other evaluation review will be allowed afterwards.
Final remarks
Without prejudice to other disciplinary action deemed appropriate and in accordance with current academic regulations, any irregularities committed by the student that may lead to a change in the qualification of an act of assessment will be qualified with a zero. Therefore, copying or allowing copying any evaluation activity will involve failing it with a zero as mark. In case it was needed to be passed to pass the course, the entire course would be failed, without the opportunity to retake them in the same academic year.
The dates of assessment and delivery of works will be published in the campus virtual, and may be subject to changes, for reasons of better programming. Always the information about these changes will be announced in campus virtual, as it is understood that this is the common platform for information exchange between professors and students.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Attendance and active classroom participation | 30% | 0 | 0 | 5, 3, 4, 6, 7, 1, 8 |
Delivery of reports / works | 40% | 0 | 0 | 5, 3, 4, 6, 1, 2, 8 |
Oral defense of works | 30% | 0 | 0 | 6, 1 |