ECE 5330 Contents

Syllabus and Course Details
Lecture Notes and Handouts
Homework and Exams

Note: Projects and Labs are not available for this course.

Course Description

This is a comprehensive graduate level course on semiconductor optoelectronics. Topics covered include fundamentals of optical interband transitions in semiconductors, spontaneous and stimulated emission of photons in semiconductors, non-radiative transitions, semiconductor materials for optoelectronics, optical absorption and gain, photodetectors, solar cells, fundamentals limits for solar cells, integrated optical waveguides and cavities, semiconductor optical amplifiers, light emitting diodes, solid state lighting, semiconductor lasers, laser dynamics, quantum well, and quantum dot lasers, integrated DFB and DBR structures, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, micro cavity lasers, widely tunable photonics, electro-absorption light modulators, all-optical switches, intersubband optical transitions, quantum cascade lasers, semiconductor optical devices in optical communication systems.

Instructor(s)

Professor Farhan Rana
316 Phillips Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607-255-6317
Fax: 607-245-3508
Email: farhan.rana at cornell.edu

Course Level

Undergraduate (senior level)

As Offered In

Fall 2014

Required Text(s)

There are no required texts. Some good and somewhat relevant texts are:

1. Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits by L. A. Coldren, S. W. Corzine
2. Physics of Optoelectronic Devices by S. L. Chuang
3. Electronic and Optical Properties of Semiconductor Structures by Jasprit Singh
4. Semiconductor Device Fundamentals by Robert F. Pierret

Course Prerequisites

1. A course in quantum mechanics.
2. A course in electromagnetic radiation (like ECE3030).
3. A course in semiconductor device physics (like ECE4570) or solid state physics (like ECE4070) .

These are strong prereqs. Students not meeting any one of these prereqs should not take this course

Course Structure

The course consists of:

1. 35% homework
2. 25% midterm
3. 35% final exam
4. 5% instructor discretion.