PHYS330

This course is dedicated to the study of the fundamentals of semiconductor properties and devices. Semiconductors are essential materials used for the fabrication of most electronic devices used on computers, cell phones,--they also play a very important role in the development of optoelectronic devices such as lasers, Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), photo-detectors,-- Optoelectronics bridges the fields of electronics and optics and therefore is crucial for today's engineering physics major students: It will provide them the necessary background to acquire a good understanding of many related interdisciplinary fields. This course also introduces most of the preliminary concepts required for the follow on photonics course (PHYS 432)