Semiconductors and optoelectronic Materials and Devices detailed syllabus for Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the MSE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Materials Science & Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MSE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to MSE Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of semiconductors and optoelectronic materials and devices is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
BASICS OF SEMICONDUCTORS 9
Energy bands and Charge carriers in Semiconductors: Direct and Indirect semiconductors, Density of states, Occupation probability, Fermi level and quasi Fermi levels, p-n junctions, Schottky junction and Ohmic contacts.
Unit II
FUNDAMENTS OF OPTOELECTRONICS 9
Elements Of Light – Wave nature of light, Polarization, Interference, Diffraction, Light Source. Excess carriers in Semiconductors: optical absorption; photo, electro and cathode – luminescence. Relevence of III-V and IV-VI material-system in optoelectronic devices. Lasers – Laser Emission, Absorption, Radiation, Population Inversion, Optical Feedback, Threshold condition, Laser Modes, Classes of Lasers.
Unit III
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Unit IV
ADVANCED PROCESSING TECHNIQUES 9
Optoelectronic materials fabrication – Mechanical Milling, Colloidal routes, Self-assembly, CVD, MOCVD, Sputtering, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Atomic Layer Epitaxy, MOMBE and Lithography. Processing Environment – clean room technology: specifications and design, air and water purity, requirements for particular processes.
Unit V
MODERN OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES 9
Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits: Introduction, hybrid and Monolithic Integration, Application of Opto Electronic Integrated Circuits, Integrated transmitters and Receivers, Guided wave devices. Quantum dot, quantum well lasers, LED, Photovoltaic, Photo-transisters, opto-electronic switches.
Course Outcomes:
Upon Completion of the Course, the students will be able to
- Relate the impacts of semiconductor material properties and the optical properties of semiconductor devices.
- Discuss the fundamental properties of optoelectronic devices
- Explain the quantum effect and the length scales of materials
- Describe the various advanced processing techniques adopted for fabrication of optoelectronic materials.
- Identify suitable material for any given application.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- B. E. A. Saleh and M. C. Teich, “Fundamentals of Photonics”, John Wiley, 2nd ed. 2007.
- Timp. G, “Nanotechnology”, AIP press/Springer, 1999.
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