MOOC: Micro and Nanofabrication (MEMS)

MICRO-621 / 1 credit

Teacher(s): Brugger Jürgen, Gijs Martinus

Language: English

Remark: September 16to November 30, 2024 - Online course (self-paced)

Frequency

Every year

Summary

Micro- and nanofabrication can be taught to students and professionals by textbooks and ex-cathedra lectures, but the real learning comes from seeing the manufacturing steps as they happen. This MOOC will not only explain the basics of microfabrication but also show the practice through videos.

Content

Microfabrication and nanofabrication are the basis of manufacturing for nearly all modern miniaturized systems that are ubiquitously used in our daily life. Examples include; computer chips and integrated sensors for monitoring our environment, cars, mobile phones, medical devices and more.

Micro- and nanofabrication can be taught to students and professionals by textbooks and ex-cathedra lectures, but the real learning comes from seeing the manufacturing steps as they happen.

In this engineering course, we will go a step beyond classroom teaching to not only explain the basics of each fabrication step but also show you how it’s done through video sequences and zooming into the equipment.

Course Syllabus

Week 1: MEMS and cleanroom introduction
Week 2: Chemical vapour deposition (CVD)
Week 3: Physical vapour deposition (PVD)
Week 4: Lithography
Week 5: Dry etching
Week 6: Wet etching
Week 7: Metrology

Keywords

microfabrication, cleanroom techniques, theory and visual demonstration by video sequences, quizzes.

Learning Prerequisites

Required courses

basics of physics and chemistry

Recommended courses

none

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

Select appropriately the correct fabrication process for a specific micro-device or microsystem
Establish the workflow for the cleanroom processes
Identify how physical and chemical phenomena govern miniaturized systems for various applications
Manage Resource planning for a given microsystem fabrication
Select appropriately the correct fabrication process for a specific micro-device or microsystem
Establish the workflow for the cleanroom processes
Identify how physical and chemical phenomena govern miniaturized systems for various applications
Manage resource planning for a given microsystem fabrication