Advanced Concepts in Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices
Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering

Description
This course will discuss scaling and performance limits for conventional electronic devices and integrated circuits and will review new emerging transistors such as Ballistic Transistors, Hot Electron Transistors, Resonant Tunneling Transistors, Plasma Wave Transistors, and Single Electron Transistors. Also review optoelectronic devices, including crystalline and amorphous solar cells, photoconductors, Light Emitting Diodes, gas, solid state, and semiconductor lasers, optical waveguides, optical fibers, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits, Cathode Ray Tubes, Liquid Crystal Displays, Plasma Displays, and Field Emission Displays.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of semiconductor devices (at the introductory undergraduate level). Basic computer skills (running standard software packages like SPICE).

Textbook(s)
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Format and Grading
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Computing
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Technical Requirements
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Who Should Enroll
This course may be used in your plan of study as follows:

CSCI - Computer Systems Engineering elective or general elective
CSYS - elective
ELEC - can be used as a semiconductor device course
EPOW - elective
ESCI-MM - elective
ESCI-MSE - can be applied toward Information Science concentration or general elective
ITEC - n/a
MBA - elective
MEAE - elective with advisor pre-approval
MGMT - elective
MGMT-HCI - n/a
MGMT-IT - elective
QUAL - elective with advisor pre-approval
SERV - elective with advisor pre-approval
TCOM - n/a

This course is also open to non-matriculated students who meet the prerequisites and is required for the Certificate in Microelectronics Technology and Design.

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