Graduate (List)

The course mainly covers the effective use of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antennas in wireless communications in order to enhance the system capacity and the link reliability. It also covers the review of basics in wireless communication systems, diversity gains, power gains, degree of freedom gains, and multiplexing capability of MIMO systems, the capacity of MIMO channel and the opportunistic communication for a fast fading channel, MIMO transmitter/receiver architectures, the outage performance, diversity-multiplexing tradeoff, and universal space-time codes for a slow fading channel, and the role of multiuser MIMO channel in uplink and downlink

This course provides the broad view of network architecture and protocol at local area network and metropolitan area network (LAN/MAN). We focus on design concept of LAN/MAN with a user and operator viewpoints (e.g., cost, complexity, and performance). Topics include all the IEEE 802.x series including 802.3x (Ethernet), 802.11x (Wireless), 802.15 (Cable), 802.16x (Wibro/WiMax), 802.17 (RPR), 802.21 (MIH), etc. In addition, a virtual private network (VPN) and passive optical network (PON) are investigated.

The course will cover basic physics and applications of various solid-state materials such as metals, semiconductors, dielectrics, thermoelectric materials, and magnetic materials. Also are included the various physics of nanostructures such as quantum well, quantum wire, quantum dots.

This course aims to give an understanding of the fundamental principles and technological developments in high-frequency electronic devices for microwave and high-speed digital/analog electronic systems and applications. (Prerequisite: EE362)

This course will cover the basic concept for optical technologies that can be important for display devices and their characterization. Students will acquire a solid knowledge of practical optical technologies that can become an important foundation for further study in display or related fields.

This module covers essential process steps in CMOS IC fabrication, focusing on front-end process technology including gate module, shallow junction module, thin film deposition, interconnection, and patterning technology. The students also develop understanding of physical background of each unit process as well as integration issues in modern CMOS devices. Recent developments in front-end processing are also covered.
(Prerequisite: EE211, EE362)

The purpose of this course is to provide the basic principles and technological developments in semiconductor optoelectronic devices and their applications. This lecture covers optical properties of semiconductor materials, operating principles of semiconductor light sources, photodetectors, and image sensing devices along with recent research trends as well as their system applications, such as high-speed optoelectronic signal processing and passive/active optical image sensing.(Prerequisite: EE362)

This course deals with fundamental concepts of multiple view geometry for 3D computer vision, such as projective geometry, transformation, estimation of the transformation parameters, camera model and camera matrix, epipolar geometry, fundamental matrix, trifocal tensor, and 3D Structure computation, and so on.

As the hardware complexity and power consumption of a digital system are critically affected by computer arithmetic methods, it is important in VLSI design to understand arithmetic processing methods. This class deals with diverse number systems, hardware computing structures, and detailed arithmetic methods for high-speed and low-power operations

This course deals with advanced levels of analog circuits emphasis on CMOS. The topics include wideband operational amplifiers, comparators, Switched capacitor filters, ADC, DAC, continuous time filters, etc.
(Prerequisite: EE571)