2025-Fall Image Sensor (SEMI423-01) The course syllabus

1.Course Information

Course No. SEMI423 Section 01 Credit 3.00
Category Major elective Course Type prerequisites
Postechian Core Competence
Hours TUE, THU / 09:30 ~ 10:45 / Science BldgⅡ[107]Lecture Room Grading Scale G

2. Instructor Information

Lee Jiwon Name Lee Jiwon Department Dept. of Semiconductor Eng.
Email address jiwonlee@postech.ac.kr Homepage https://pixellab.postech.ac.kr
Office NINT 504 Office Phone 279-2350
Office Hours

3. Course Objectives

- 교과목개요: 이미지센서는 광전변환을 활용하는 가장 대표적인 반도체 소자 중 하나이다. 본 강의에서는 반도체 이미지 센서의 전반적인 이해를 위하여 기본적인 반도체 광학과 이를 응용한 이미지 센싱 시스템의 전반적인 지식을 다룬다.

- 교육목표: 이미지센서를 이해하기 위한 카메라 동작의 기초와 깊이있는 전기광학적 지식에서 부터, 소자의 설계와 이해, 이미지 센싱을 위한 특화 반도체 공정, 이미지센서의 특성과 최신의 이미지 센서 동향을 이해하여 광전 반도체 소자 및 시스템의 설계, 또는 활용에 대한 기반을 확립한다.

4. Prerequisites & require

반도체 소자, 반도체 집적공정 개론

5. Grading

- mid term exam (30%), final term exam (30%), term project presentation (30%), participation in the class (10%)

6. Course Materials

Title Author Publisher Publication
Year/Edition		 ISBN
Lecture note 0000

7. Course References

TBD.

8. Course Plan

1st week Introduction (Camera basics)
2nd week Light and Photodetection
3rd week Photodetectors
4th week Photodetectors
5th week Photocurrent and dark current
6th week CCD (Charge Coupled Device)
7th week CCD (Charge Coupled Device)
8th week Midterm exam and catch up
9th week CIS (CMOS Image Sensor)
10th week CIS (CMOS Image Sensor)
11th week Image sensor performance matrices
12th week Image sensor fabrication process
13th week Noise and SNR
14th week Noise and SNR
15th week State of the art image sensors
16th week Final Exam

9. Course Operation

10. How to Teach & Remark

11. Supports for Students with a Disability

- Taking Course: interpreting services (for hearing impairment), Mobility and preferential seating assistances (for developmental disability), Note taking(for all kinds of disabilities) and etc.

- Taking Exam: Extended exam period (for all kinds of disabilities, if needed), Magnified exam papers (for sight disability), and etc.

- Please contact Center for Students with Disabilities (279-2434) for additional assistance

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