you can’t always get what you want
by admin - July 7th, 2009.Filed under: Uncategorized.
I got into the three classes I wanted to get into for fall semester at KAUST:
EE 203. Solid-State Device Laboratory (1-2-3)
Semiconductor material and device fabrication and evaluation: diodes, bipolar and field-effect transistors, passive components. Semiconductor processing techniques: oxidation, diffusion, deposition, etching, photolithography. Lecture and laboratory. Projects to design and simulate device fabrication sequence.
EE 205. Introduction to MEMS (4-0-4)
Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS), devices and technologies. Micro-machining and microfabrication techniques, including planar thin-film processing, silicon etching, wafer bonding, photolithography, deposition and etching. Transduction mechanisms and modeling in different energy domains. Analysis of micromachined capacitive, piezoresistive and thermal sensors/actuators and applications. Computer-aided design for MEMS layout, fabrication and analysis.
EE 208. Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (3-0-3)
Materials for optoelectronics, optical processes in semiconductors, absorption and radiation, transition rates and carrier lifetime. Principles of LEDs, lasers, photodetectors, modulators and solar cells. Optoelectronic integrated circuits. Designs, demonstrations and projects related to optoelectronic device phenomena.
I was asked the question if I liked research into more theory stuff or more experimentalist stuff. I actually confused what I was being asked and then was confronted with the simple statement: “are you a theorist or an experimentalist?” I have the feeling that the rest of my life will be based on my answer. I am an experimentalist when push comes to shove.