Class presentation

You will have 8 minutes for your presentation with an additional 2 minutes for questions. Your presentation should be prepared in some presentation software (Powerpoint, Freelance e.t.c). You can do an all electronic presentation if you wish. You are responsible for the computer and you can use the projector available from the ECE office in Barton Hall. Make sure you reserve the projector in advance if you would like to use it. Your presenation should contain no more than 8 slides preferably without color background (you can use color figures but avoid fancy background schemes)

The presentation should include:

  1. Names and title of  the propose project (1 slide)
  2. Introduction and literature survey (1 slide)
  3. Methods and procedures to fabricate your device (3 or 4 slides)
  4. Testing and characterization (1 or 2 slides)
  5. Conclusions (1 slide)

Please hand in: i) an electronic version of your presentation ii) hardcopy printout.

Final Report

The purpose of the final report is for you (i) to reinforce your understanding of how our microfabricated device was constructed, and (ii) to compare the design and fabrication of our device to "state of art" microfabricated devices. We would like the report to follow the format of a technical article, with the major sections described below.

Introduction: Survey the literature (the journal Sensors & Actuators is a good place to start) and address the following questions.

What are the potential applications for the device?

What are the principles of operation?

How are they made (e.g. bulk vs. surface micromachining)?

Experimental: Describe the process used to fabricate the device, in sufficient detail that a knowledgeable in microfabrication could reproduce your work. Include figures to illustrate the cross-section of the sensor at each step in the process.

Results: Since we may not be able to test the response of your device by the time this is due, use this section to report on the measurements made during the fabrication process, such as the thickness of the different structures and layers.

Discussion: Compare your device to one of the "state of the art" devices you found during your literature search. Address factors such as design (size, complexity), fabrication (number of mask levels, processes/materials used), and performance.

Conclusions/Future Work: Your recommendations for improvements in the design and fabrication are welcome.

The report, including figures, should be no longer than 3 typeset pages long.