Electronic and Optical Properties of Semiconductors

4 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: ECE 520 or ECE 540. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (4 credits) The course discusses in detail the theory behind important semiconductor-based experiments such as Hall effect and Hall mobility measurement; velocity-field measurement; photoluminescence; gain; pump-probe studies; pressure and strain-dependent studies. Theory will cover: Bandstructure in quantum wells; effect of strain on bandstructure; transport theory; Monte Carlo methods for high field transport; excitons, optical absorption, luminescence and gain.