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Objective
Syllabus
Review of physical properties of light. Optical sources and detectors. Interaction between light and biological materials. Introduction to cell and tissues, DNA and protein. Photo-absorption, emission and spectroscopy. Bio-imaging principles and techniques. Modeling of light-tissue interaction. Light-activated therapy. Micro-array technology. Laser tweezers. Emerging biophotonic technologies.
Learning Outcome
By the end of the course, students should demonstrate the following outcomes:
- have a brief picture of how photonic techniques may be used for analyzing biological materials;
- clear understanding of the physics of photons, and the operation of various optical sources and detection devices;
- basic knowledge on building blocks of biological matter including tissues, cells, proteins and DNA, and their interaction with photons;
- understanding of optical imaging principle and systems;
- appreciation of photonic biosensors, micro-array sensing technology, optical tweezers and emerging biophotonic techniques.
Objective
Theory of optical waveguides. Design techniques for optical waveguides. Numerical methods (FDTD, BPM etc) for optical waveguide simulations and their limitations. The use of commercial simulation and CAD layout tools to design optical waveguide devices such as directional couplers and splitters. Coupling techniques and losses in optical waveguides. Nonlinear effects and their applications. Optical modulators and optical interconnects. Recent trends and applications.
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Learning Outcome
Objective
Review MOS device properties and electrical models. Basic analog circuit building blocks including simple and cascode current sources, active loads, common source and common drain amplifiers, DC biasing networks, and differential amplifiers. Analog sub-systems building blocks including CMOS OTA op-amp, OCA, comparators, A/D, D/A, and switching capacitor circuits. Selected topics in CMOS RF circuits.
Prerequisite: ELEG3210. (ONLY suitable for undergraduate students enrollment.)
Syllabus
- CMOS technology
- MOS transistor model
- CMOS CS amplifier
- CMOS CD amplifier
- CMOS CG amplifier
- Differential amplifier
- Noise
- Current mirror
- Single stage opamp
- Two stage opamp
- Special purpose opamp
- Comparator
- Converter
- Switching capacitor circuit
Learning Outcome
- Understand different types of CMOS technologies.
- Perform design, layout and simulation of different types of CMOS opamps.
- Understand the limitations of different types of CMOS opamps.
Objective
The course is about the design of analog-digital mixed-signal integrated ICs. Technology consideration is first discussed. Emphasis of this course is on the design of continuous-time filter, switched-capacitor filter, digital/analog and analog/digital converters. A hands-on design project is required in the course.
Students are advised to have taken ERG2030, ELE2510 and ELE3210 before taking this course.
Syllabus
- Continuous-time filters
- Switched-capacitor filters
- Nyquist-rate D/A converters
- Nyquist-rate A/D converters
- Over-sampled A/D converters
Learning Outcome
After the completion of this course, students are expected to be able to
- Design an integrated filter for various applications
- Design an integrated data converter for various applications
Objective
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Introduction to RFIC technologies; Transceiver Architectures; RFIC components; Computer-Aided Design tools; RFIC design with examples: LNA, Mixer, oscillator etc.
Learning Outcome
By the endof the course, students should be able to
- Have an overallpicture of RFIC design and technology.
- Understand the basicoperating principles of RF transceiver architectures.
- Understand the highfrequency modeling of RFIC components.
- Understand thedesign principles of RFIC circuitry.
- Perform design andsimulation of RFIC.
