Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Prerequisites: [/Electrical Engineering/ELL732|ELL732]
Overlaps with: ELL739
Description
Newtonian mechanics, wavepackets, brief history of quantum mechanics, blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect, wave-particle duality, second quantization, Semiconductor materials, crystal structure and defects, Bravais lattices, Brillouin zones, Miller indices, periodic potentials, Kronig-Penney model, bandstructure in bulk semiconductors, Bloch theorem, direct and indirect bandgap semiconductors, effective mass, effect of alloying, carrier statistics, superlattices and quantum wells, density of states in 0,1,2 and 3 dimensions, bandstructure in lower dimensional systems, heterojunctions, effect of strain on bandstructure, excitonic effects in semiconductors, tunneling, perturbation theory, scattering and collisions, phonons, high-field transport, Boltzmann transport theory, spin transport, excitons, optical processes in semiconductors and quantum wells, absorption, gain, spontaneous and stimulated emission, fluorescence and phosphorescence, photophysics of organic molecules and polymers.
Prerequisite Tree
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ELL745-1408[ELL745]
ELL745-1408 --> ELL732-1408[ELL732]
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