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Figure 2: State-of-the-art 300mm panel pilot line cleanroom facility.
Cleanroom 300mm panel pilot-line
facilities
Traditionally, universities buy and
set up individual pieces of table-top
equipment to perform experiments. The
results from these experiments are not
scalable to manufacturing, therefore,
further technology development and
qualification are required.
Usi ng 30 0 m m pa nel t ools a nd
facilities, we set up an entire pilot line
from design to substrate fabrication, to
assembly, test, reliability and metrology
(see Figure 2). These facilities are
designed to be used in such a way as to
function both as basic R&D and system
demonstration test vehicles, and to
educate students in inter-disciplinary
system-level R&D as well as in the
industry’s culture.
Interdisciplinary-individual
education
In contrast to traditional education in
a single discipline, I accepted incoming
students into the GT PRC program
from either electrical, mechanical,
materials or chemical engineering
disciplines, but the outgoing students
are system-level interdisciplinary
engineers. This is enabled by the

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