Semiconductor Devices for Wireless & Fiber Communication

This course is no longer offered

(3-0-0-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Group(s) / Course Type(s): Nanotechnology

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Prerequisites: ECE 3080/3450

Catalog Description

Advanced development of semiconductor device theory focusing on
optoelectronic emitters, detectors, & high frequency transistors to
provide an understanding of devices used in communications systems

Textbook(s)

Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices

Course Outcomes

Not Applicable

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

Not Applicable

Topical Outline

I. Basics of Optoelectronics
A. Absorption & emission of radiation
B. Generation & recombination events
C. Absorption length & spectral coverage
II. Optoelectronic Emitters
A. LEDs
B. LASERs
C. Flat panel displays
III. Optoelectronic Detectors
A. Photoconductors
B. MSMs
C. Photodiodes
D. APDs
E. Schottky diodes
IV. Basics of High Frequency, High Power Devices
A. Basic transport issues
B. Nonstationary transport - velocity overshoot
C. Heterojunctions
D. Wide band gap semiconductors
V. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors
A. HBT operation
B. Phototransistors
C. High frequency operation
VI. Field Effect Transistors
A. MESFET operation
B. GaAs MESFETs
C. High Frequency MESFETs
D. HEMTs