Advanced Semiconductor Devices

3 Credits.

This course is designed to develop and enhance the understanding of the operating principles and performance characteristics of the modern semiconductor devices used in high speed optical communications, optical storage and information display. The emphasis is on device physics andfabrication technology. The devices include heterojunction bipolar transistors, high mobility FET's, semiconductor lasers, laser amplifiers, light-emitting diodes, detectors, solar cells and others.