The Hedco Microelectronics Laboratory, a College of Engineering facility, has close ties to the department. It provides opportunities for instruction and research in the properties of materials and in integrated circuit fabrication. Students build their own transistors in the Hedco Laboratory. This lab is also used for fabricating integrated circuits, chemical sensors, and micromachined devices.
Microwaves and Electromagnetics
The microwave research laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and sophisticated research facilities almost unique to academia. Facilities in these laboratories include the network analysis laboratory, the indoor antenna range and dielectric properties measurement facilities. The network analysis laboratory houses an HP8510 (45 MHz to 26.5 GHz), its millimeter wave upgrade (26.5 to 40 GHz), and an HP8753 network analyzer (300 KHz to 6 GHz). The laboratory is used for measuring and characterizing microwave components and devices, both in time and frequency domains; high-frequency characterization of semiconductor packages; and dielectric properties measurements.
Optics
There is a teaching lab for laser classes in the Merrill Engineering Building, and a Center for Raman Technology that develops and tests new designs and methods for using Raman Spectroscopy in a wide variety of settings. Optics is claiming an increasingly important role in leading-edge electrical engineering. The Optics Lab is used by both undergraduates and graduate students studying this important area.
Microcircuits for amplifying weak electrical signals produced by neurons in the brain
This microchip measures less than 2.5 mm on each side and contains low-power circuits for amplifying electrical signals from the brain and transmitting them over a radio telemetry link.
University of Utah • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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