| 2012 | week | |||||||
| class | date & | # | Reading | topics | HW | lab/ field trip | Enrichment | |
| 1 | Thursday | Jan. 5 | 1 | chpt.2 & 1 (15 pages) | Kin. Theory of Gas & MS #1 | pumps, gauges | ||
| 2 | Tuesday | Jan. 10 | & LH manual | Vacuum & MS #2 | 1 | Cryo & diff. pumps | ||
| 3 | Thursday | Jan. 12 | 2 | Chp. 1 & 2 | Material Science #3 & Vac. | 2 | ||
| 4 | Tuesday | Jan. 17 | 3 | mass spectrometers | ||||
| 5 | Thursday | 20-Jan | 3 | Chp. 3 | Evaporation Process | 4 | Evaporators, U238 | Quartz thickness monitor |
| 6 | Tuesday | 24-Jan | Valves & UHV components | |||||
| 7 | Thursday | 26-Jan | 4 | 10.1-.2 | 5 | Ellipsometer, Dectak | ||
| 8 | Tuesday | 31-Jan | Chp. 4 | Plasmas! | EE :PECVD & Ashers | Gas line hardware | ||
| 9 | Thursday | 2-Feb | 5 | 6 | U234 | flow controllers | ||
| 10 | Tuesday | 7-Feb | Review | Exam 1: 1-4 | 7 | capacitance monometers | ||
| 11 | Thursday | 9-Feb | 6 | Ch. 5 | plasma & ion beam | EE clean room | Targets & sources | |
| 12 | Tuesday | 14-Feb | processing | 8 | U234 | POWER supplies, ion guns | ||
| 13 | Thursday | 16-Feb | 7 | 6 | CVD | 9 | EE | Gases: sources, purifiers & safety |
| Tuesday | 21-Feb | Holiday | ||||||
| 14 | Thursday | 23-Feb | Mass Flow Control & Quartzware | |||||
| 15 | Tuesday | 28-Feb | 8 | 10 | ||||
| 16 | Thursday | 1-Mar | 7 | Surfaces & nucleation | TEM (10.3.3) | Substrates | ||
| 17 | Tuesday | 6-Mar | 9 | AFM (10.3.5) | Auger (AES) (10.4.4) | |||
| 18 | Thursday | 8-Mar | 8 | Epitaxy | 11 | Hedco | MBE, LEED | |
| 19 | Tuesday | 13-Mar | 10 | XRD. TEM | RHEED | |||
| 20 | Thursday | 15-Mar | 9 | Film structure | 12 | SEM(10.3.2): UGL& Cluff | AFM | |
| 21 | Tuesday | 20-Mar | 11 | 13 | TechSem Lab? | EBSD (~Kikuchi) lines | ||
| 22 | Thursday | 22-Mar | Review | Exam 2: 5-8 or 9 | 14 | |||
| 23 | Tuesday | 27-Mar | 12 | 10. 3-4 | XRD (10.3.4) TEM | |||
| 24 | Thursday | 29-Mar | Characterization | 15 | XPS, SIMS (10.4.5& .8) | Your Mystry wafers | ||
| 25 | Tuesday | 3-Apr | 13 | 11 | Interdiffusion, reactions | |||
| 26 | Thursday | 5-Apr | & transformations | 16 | ||||
| 27 | Tuesday | 10-Apr | 14 | 12 | Mechanical properties | 17 | where? | Wafer bowing? |
| 28 | Thursday | 12-Apr | Review | & Presentations | 18 & 9 | |||
| Tuesday | 17-Apr | 700-1000 | Final | |||||