Sumários

Thin film nanodevices - energy calculation

7 outubro 2019, 09:00 Susana Isabel Pinheiro Cardoso de Freitas

The energy terms for a thin film nanodevice: Zeeman, anisotropy, magnetostatic. Energy minimization, and models for thin film nanodevice modeling. Launching Homework #2.


The CMOS technologies

4 outubro 2019, 14:00 Susana Isabel Pinheiro Cardoso de Freitas

Practical demonstration of the circuit design. The europractice multiproject wafer accessibility and design rules.

Application cases. 


Microelectronic circuits

30 setembro 2019, 09:00 Susana Isabel Pinheiro Cardoso de Freitas

Technological challenges in nanoelectronics component integration with consumer electronics. Nanodevice contact wiring, chip bonding and assembly methods to assemble chips in electronicss boards and discrete components. 


Reading magnetic information

27 setembro 2019, 14:00 Susana Isabel Pinheiro Cardoso de Freitas

Reading magnetic information: the hard disk technology. Magnetic sensors ( AMR, GMR and TMR) - materials, physics and principles of operation. Energy terms in a multilayer stack (GMR, spinvalve and TMR). Demagnetizing field, magnetostatic interactions between layers. 


Magnetic memories and MRAM

23 setembro 2019, 09:00 Susana Isabel Pinheiro Cardoso de Freitas

Magnetic memories: writing a stable bit. Energy minimization (monodomain model) for a thin film magnetic element. MRAM - Magnetic RAM memory . Calculation of the retention time and bit stability.