UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
College of Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
EE290D Handout #2 Spring 1999 T.-J. King
COURSE SYLLABUS AND SCHEDULE
Week Dates Topics
1 1/18 - 1/22 Display market status and trends; FPD overview
2 1/25 - 1/29 Human visual system and display metrics
3 2/1 - 2/5 FPD design issues
Field Trip to Display Works ’99 (San Jose, CA): 2/3
4 2/8 - 2/12 Liquid crystals; Passive matrix liquid-crystal displays
5 2/15 - 2/19 Active matrix liquid-crystal displays
6 2/22 - 2/26 Thin-film transistor technologies for active-matrix displays
7 3/1 - 3/5 Physics of thin-film transistors
8 3/8 - 3/12 Phosphors; Field-emission displays
9 3/15 - 3/19 Field-emission displays (continued)
(Spring Recess: 3/22 - 3/26)
10 3/29 - 4/2 Plasma display panels
11 4/5 - 4/9 Electroluminescent displays
12 4/12 - 4/16 Organic light-emitting diodes
13 4/19 - 4/23 Microdisplays; Micromechanical displays
14 4/26 – 4/30 Projection displays; 3D displays
15 5/3 - 5/7 Project/proposal presentations
Project Due Date: Monday, 5/17