welcome to EE 292L
So this class, I will get some logistics out of the way.
So we meet here Monday, Wednesday 4:15-5:30.
Myself, Aneesh and Professor Saraswat, who is
right now in the audience, are the main instructors for this class.
We also have a excellent TA YIBO he, he has majored in physical electronics in
Berkeley and now he's doing this course here.
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And some important information, so the most important thing for
this class is it does not use the coursework website.
It uses newly constructed platform which is Class2Go,
so it's this is the website for this class, and
it uses a lot of videos, and it's a very interactive platform.
It also uses this forum called piazza, which some of
you might have used in other of your classes in Stanford.
So it allows you to have a more interactive discussion where you
can post questions and other people, other fewer classmates could answer them.
And you can you can see where the discussion is.
please enroll in this website in the first week from the next week onwards.
all the announcement will be sent through this website.
If you're not on the website you'll
miss on all the information regarding the course.
the lectures will be recorded and posted on
this website as well as posted for eternity
on Youtube If you ask a question there's
a probability that you know you might get recorded.
If you have , if, if, it's my responsibility
to tell you that if you have a problem with that, you can let us know.
We will not, you can raise two hands instead of one when you are
asking a question and Alex, who is recording the course, will not record you.
The other thing about this class it's a very different class format.
It uses a flip class room model. So there will be very few lecturing
happening in the class. Less than 23% of the time in the class
would be spent on lectures. The lectures in the class
would be supplemented by these short videos which would be on the
on the class web site, as well as on You tube.
And every Wednesday we'll have a guest speaker.
So ten weeks, so ten of these classes would be lectures, but those
also would be very interactive and we'll get a flayer of that today.
And the speakers are, we have handpicked the speakers and I personally train
them before they come to the class to. So they are very well integrated with the
class content. there are mostly the 10 speakers.
Four of them would be founders or
CTOs of startups so working in nanomanufacturing field.
Three of them are people, will be people from
Industry, we're doing industry, interesting stuff in the company.
And then, I have three venture capitalists who are actively engaged in
nanomanufacturing, or nanotechnology. So, in total, ten, ten weeks, ten
lectures, ten guest lectures. so it's a very video.
If you've read a lot of these shark videos.
If you might of heard of
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that's the kind of, the same format I use for recording these videos.
And you could either watch them on this website.
And you can actually download them too.
So, if you are going skiing, skiing season might start
soon next month, so you can take them with you.
it syncs also it records still where you watched the last
video and when you come back you can start from there.
you can also subscribe to it on Youtube.
so you can watch it from your, from your phone or your tablet.
you can if you like it you can share it on Facebook or a Twitter, if you don't like
it you can comment on it that you know this
is really slow that sucks, its open for a commenting.
these are some
this is a partial list of the this is Seven people.
We are still gathering three more people for for, for this class
so you can see that some interesting start up people over here.
a lot of them have origin from Stanford.
there are some VC firms, some very known VC firms
so they will be all coming to us and speaking to us.
you know I would like to give everybody a A but this
requires there is a University requirement
that you need to have problem sets and exams.
So there will be three problem sets. Each of them will be based on three
weeks of content.
The first one will be out this Wednesday, right.
So that will be 35% of the grade There'll be a mid term, which would be not
actually in the mid, but towards week six or seven, that will be 35% of the grade.
there'll be a project.
We're still deciding on it but mostly, it will involve making it will involve
making a video, like what you saw in, in
In this class it will require you to record a screencast and we have a room
with all the equipment and stuff for doing that so you'll probably have a good time.
No end term exam.
You can take it for a letter or credit.
What would we be covering in this class?
So, This is what we will be covering each week.
Week, week, week one,
which is today, I'll just, browse through what we have on lithography and
patterning Week two we'll be having a full lecture on process technology.
Then week three, we'll be covering covering this
FinFETs and three devices, boot process and device implication.
week four will be NAND flash memory. Week five would be process technology,
recent developments of devices are going 3D,
how does it affect the process technology.
week 6 is very interesting we'll be covering a
packaging on 3D ICs.
and then this would be forming the content that we have for the Midterm.
Week, then the rest later part of the course we'll actually
switch gear, then we apply whatever techniques we have learned for
nanomanufacturing into this new field that it's expanding into.
So week seven,
we'll be covering display. Week eight would be crystalline solar.
Week nine would be Thin film solar, and week 10 would be LEDs.
So it's a very broad class. It spans the whole spectrum of things.
it's not a debt class, it's it
it it does not, you know, it does not build on fundamentals
and it's, it's assumed you have some fundamentals and then expand on those.
So what, what can you expect from this class?
you can understand where this nanomanufacturing technology is applied
in legacy fields, such as making memory, making microprocessors.
And then how it's being adapted to a new set
of Application such as display, solar, LEDs we'll, I will
try to give you a flavour of what the current
status on thing, what are the big challenges, where the opportunities.
you strengthen your knowledge on process technology, You
also strengthen your knowledge on device physics .
at the end of the course you will be able to very comfortably
read publications like EETimes and Greentechmedia
and understand what is being talked about.
Or browse through conferences like IEDM or VLSI
or PVCN and understand what's being talked about.
this is not the first process of device class you should be taking.
So if if you haven't taken any process or
device class in your undergrad at Stanford I would
not recommend taking this class.