Bioengineering (BE) Undergraduate Courses (2015-16)
Ph/APh/EE/BE 118 ab.
Physics of Measurement.
9 units (3-0-6):
first and second terms.
Prerequisites: Ph127, APh 105, or equivalent, or permission from instructor.
This course focuses on exploring the fundamental underpinnings of experimental measurements from the perspectives of responsivity, noise, backaction, and information. Its overarching goal is to enable students to critically evaluate real measurement systems, and to determine the ultimate fundamental and practical limits to information that can be extracted from them. Topics will include physical signal transduction and responsivity, fundamental noise processes, modulation, frequency conversion, synchronous detection, signal-sampling techniques, digitization, signal transforms, spectral analyses, and correlations. The first term will cover the essential fundamental underpinnings, while topics in second term will include examples from optical methods, high-frequency and fast temporal measurements, biological interfaces, signal transduction, biosensing, and measurements at the quantum limit.
Instructor: Roukes.
Ph/APh/EE/BE 118 c.
Physics of Measurement.
9 units (3-0-6):
third terms.
Prerequisites: Ph127, APh 105, or equivalent, or permission from instructor.
Ph118c will focus on the physical principles and applications of several important measurement techniques to modern condensed matter physics research. The course will begin with an introduction of the concept of self-energy and Green function techniques in the descriptions of many-body interactions. Several representative experimental techniques for investigating important physical properties of many-body systems will be discussed, followed by explicit examples for their applications to condensed matter physics research. The measurement techniques will include scanning probe microscopy, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, optical measurements, and thermodynamic and electrical transport measurements.
Instructor: Yeh.