The aim of this course is to introduce students to the design and operation of advanced semiconducting and superconducting devices, to the fundamentals of quantum technologies and their applications for sensing and computing.

4 lectures per week

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85% Written Exam

15% Report: Laboratory report

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the design and operation of advanced high-frequency and quantum electronic devices including high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs), semiconducting quantum dots and superconducting qubits, and to the fundamentals of quantum technologies and their applications for sensing and computing.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ use semiconductor E-k bandstructure diagrams to design electronic devices;

■ design semiconductor heterostructures and exploit the properties of strain;

■ design high electron mobility transistors (HEMT), heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBT), charge-coupled devices (CCD) and field-effect transistors (FET);

■ describe and design aspects of solid-state quantum circuits (spin dots and superconducting qubits);

■ use quantum control and correlation to optimise sensing elements;

■ design and describe circuit logic operation of quantum computers

Students must attend the degree examination and submit at least 75% by weight of the other components of the course's summative assessment.

Students must attend the timetabled laboratory classes.