 Academic Year: | 2017/8 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 20%, EX 80% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Use of operational amplifiers in simple linear feedback circuits (CW 10%)
- Amplifier Design Challenge (CW 10%)
- Examination (EX 80%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- EE20004 - Reassessment Examination (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take EE10168
or equivalent. |
| Description:
| Aims & Learning Objectives:
To introduce students to the electrical properties of semiconductor materials, based on atomic and crystal structure. To develop the behaviour of electronic components formed from the semiconductor materials and to provide the design techniques for incorporating these devices into electronic circuits. At the end of this unit students should be able to understand and explain the basis of electrical conduction in materials and devices and use this to explain the circuit behaviour of semiconductor devices; to be able to design simple practical circuits based on these devices, such as BJT and FET amplifiers.
Content:
Atomic theory: atoms, crystals, energy band structure and diagrams, electrical conduction in solids. Semiconductors: intrinsic, p & n type doping, extrinsic semiconductors, conduction processes (drift and diffusion). Devices: p-n junctions, metal-semiconductor junctions, bipolar junction transistors, field effect transistors, p-n-p-n devices. Circuits: CE and CS amplifiers; biasing, load line and the Q-point and its stability; other amplifiers configurations. General principles of amplification: small signal equivalent circuits and frequency response. Operational amplifier characteristics, bandwidth, slew rate and compensation.
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| Programme availability: |
EE20004 is Compulsory on the following programmes:
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
- UEEE-AFB13 : BEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering (Year 2)
- UEEE-AKB13 : BEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEEE-AFM13 : MEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering (Year 2)
- UEEE-AKM13 : MEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEEE-AFB01 : BEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Year 2)
- UEEE-AKB01 : BEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEEE-AFM01 : MEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Year 2)
- UEEE-AKM01 : MEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEEE-AFB12 : BEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering (Year 2)
- UEEE-AKB12 : BEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEEE-AFM12 : MEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering (Year 2)
- UEEE-AKM12 : MEng(Hons) Electrical Power Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEEE-AKB05 : BEng(Hons) Electronic and Communication Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEEE-AFB14 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology (Year 2)
- UEEE-AKB14 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEEE-AFM14 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology (Year 2)
- UEEE-AKM14 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science & Technology with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEEE-AFB15 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Systems Engineering (Year 2)
- UEEE-AKB15 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Systems Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEEE-AFM15 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Systems Engineering (Year 2)
- UEEE-AKM15 : MEng(Hons) Electronic Systems Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEXX-AFB02 : BEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (Year 2)
- UEXX-AKB02 : BEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
- UEXX-AFM02 : MEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (Year 2)
- UEXX-AKM02 : MEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 2)
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