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Course contents
  1. Standardization
    1. Definition, advantages, types
    2. Standards in the field of quality assurance
    3. Reliability
    4. Definition
    5. Failure rate
    6. Reliability bath tub
    7. Mathematical description
  2. Aging
    1. Definition of aging
    2. Description of degradation processess
    3. Temperature and time dependence of degradation
    4. Accelerated aging
    5. Acceleration factor
    6. MTTF and activation energy of degradation
  3. Resistors
    1. Introduction
    2. Designation
    3. Tolerance classess
    4. Renard decades
    5. Electrical-thermal analogy
    6. Essential properties
    7. Nominal power
    8. Stability
    9. Maximal loading characteristics
    10. Impulse excitation
    11. Temperature coefficient
    12. Sheet resistance
    13. Resistors at higher frequencies
    14. Noise
    15. Overview of resistor families
      1. Film resistors
        (carbon film, metal film)
      2. Wirewound resistors
      3. Special resistors (classic and SMD, integrated - thick and thin film resistors, semiconductor)
      4. Fused resistors
      5. Presettable resistors
      6. Non-linear resistors: NTC and PTC thermistors, varistors
  4. Capacitors
    1. Introduction
    2. Essential properties
    3. Polarization
    4. Capacitance
    5. Dielektric absorption
    6. Real capacitor
    7. Heating loss of a capacitor
    8. Loss factor and impedance
    9. High frequency equivalent circuit
    10. Temperature coefficient
    11. Breakdown
    12. Overview of capacitor families
      1. Paper, Plastic, Ceramic, Mica, Glass, Electrolytic (wet/dry Al & Ta)
      2. Special:
        (classic/SMD, integrated - thick/thin film , semiconductor - PN junction, MOS, ferroelectric).
  5. Inductors
    1. Introduction
    2. Electrical-magnetical circuits analogy
    3. Air core inductor
    4. More precise inductance expressions
    5. Real inductor
    6. Cored inductors
    7. Ferrites
    8. Magnetic domains
    9. Magnetization
    10. Initial and complex permeability
    11. Normalized loss diagram
    12. Core C-factors and inductance of a cored inductor without gap.
    13. Cored inductors with a gap
      1. Inductance,
      2. Effective permeability.
      3. Inductance (AL) and turns factor (AN)
      4. Resistance factor (AR)
      5. Desaccomodation
      6. Loss in a core with gap
      7. Total loss
      8. Loss dependency with respect to gap width
      9. Temperaturne coefficients
    14. Design procedure for a cored inductor with a gap
    15. Design procedure for a network (50Hz) and impulse transformer
  6. Piezoelectric elements
    1. Piezoelectric effect
    2. Mechanical load
    3. Crystal polarization
    4. Induced voltage
    5. Overview of piezoelectric elements
      1. Actuators
      2. Quartz crystals
      3. SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave) elements
  7. Sensors
    1. Introduction
    2. Definitions
    3. Conversion principles
    4. Essential sensor parameters
      (characteristic, sensitivity, accuracy, resolution ...)
    5. Sensor signal conditioning, Sensor system, essential elements (sensor, amplifier, filter,sample and hold, A/D converter, microcontroller).
    6. Essential sensor OPA based signal conditioning circuits: Inverting and non-inverting, buffer, adder, integrator, differentiator, differential and instrumentation amplifier, sensor signal transmission.
    7. Sensor technologies: Classic microelectronic technologies, micromachining.
    8. Overview of sensor families
      1. Sensors with resistance change, capacitance change, inductance change
      2. Displacement sensor, expansion sensor, pressure sensor, accelerometer, level and fluid sensor, temperature, light, color, energy and radiation, chemical and magnetic.