Microsystems
Gheorghe Brezeanu
Coordinator
Overview
The master's direction prepares specialists in microsystems, bringing together a wide variety of microstructures, MEMS, MOEMS, RF-MEMS and BIO-MEMS, smart sensors, actuators, microelectronic processing circuits. These systems combine two or more properties: electrical, mechanical, optical, chemical, biological or magnetic, in a multidisciplinary approach. The increasing complexity and diversity of microsystems involves, seemingly paradoxically, simulation, design and testing processes specific to micro- and nanoelectronic devices and circuits. The Master has an almost encyclopedic character, through the circuits it analyses (representing microelectronics at the highest level), through the state-of-the-art nanotechnologies it promotes, through the multifunctional test and characterisation systems (on the IMT Bucharest platform) it makes available to students, and through the openness and horizon it confers on graduates.
Who is it for?
The Master is intended for graduates from:
- Electronic engineering and telecommunications,
- Computers and information technology,
- Electrical and energy engineering
- Applied engineering sciences (majors: Physics Technology and Biotechnology)
- Materials Engineering and Science,
- Environmental engineering (specialising in biotechnical and ecological systems engineering)
- Bio and electrochemistry
- Industrial Engineering (specialising in Nanotechnologies and Unconventional Processes).
Objectives of the Master's programme
- Acquire knowledge for the analysis, design and implementation of micromechanical structures, intelligent sensors. Disciplines in the syllabus directly related to this objective: Radio Frequency Electromechanical Microsystems (RF-MEMS), Biodevices and Cellular Nanoelectronics,
- Power semiconductor devices for microsystems (DSP).
- Highlighting the fundamental concepts of modelling in microelectronics. New models, some original to the Romanian school, are discussed for weak inversion and strong inversion nanoscale MOS transistors, for dynamically thresholded MOS transistors, for power devices made on silicon and wideband semiconductors. This is achieved by the courses: Modeling and experimental characterization of integrated microstructures, Power semiconductor devices in microsystems, Simulation of electronic devices and processes in integrated microsystems.
- Microsystems ICs: self-organizing cellular systems, multi-core digital ICs, typical analog circuits such as: current sources and active loads, voltage references, differential and full excursion output stages, converters. Design techniques for these circuits, the software-hardware relationship in design (software-hardware codesign) and the presentation of specific application areas are discussed in the disciplines: Digital Processing in Microsystems, Functional Electronics, Micro- and Nanoelectronic CMOS and BiCMOS Circuits for Microsystems.
- Familiarisation with modern techniques and equipment for processing and characterisation at the micro and nano scale. Are presented and experimented in the disciplines: Microphysical characterisation of micro- and nano-structures, Technological systems in microelectronics, Testing and testability, Functional verification of circuits, Advanced nanoelectronic processes.
Specialist skills offered to graduates
- The Microsystems graduate will acquire multiple skills to professionalize as an embedded microsystems designer or process technologist using the ability to quickly adapt to the latest software tools and nanoelectronic technologies,
- He is knowledgeable in the design of circuits with nanoscale MOS transistors, low operating voltages and low power consumption,
- Gain the opportunity to work in frontier and interdisciplinary areas of microelectronics with biosensors and electrochemistry,
- Become familiar with modelling and simulation of microelectronic components and analogue and digital nanoscale integrated circuits.
Examples of research directions addressed
- Modelling and simulation of technological devices and processes for microsystems
- Circuit design for control and power supply of intelligent microsystems and sensors
- Simulation and Characterisation of Biosystems and Microsystems