Courses

    Offers experience in monolithic silicon integrated circuit fabrication techniques, including Ic layout,pattern compiling and generation, mask making, oxidation, photolithography, diffusion, implantation, metallization, bonding, process analysis, and testing. Includes design project. Same as ECEN 5375. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of ECEN 3320 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to College of Engineering majors only.
    Develops principles underlying electronic, optical and thermal devices, materials and nanostructures for renewable energy. Course provides a foundation in statistical thermodynamics, and uses it to analyze the operation and efficiency limits of devices for photovoltaics, energy storage (batteries & ultra-capacitors), chemical conversion (fuel cells and engines), solid state lighting, heat pumps, cooling, and potentially harvesting zero-point energy from the vacuum. Same as ECEN 5555. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ECEN 3810 or APPM 3570 or MATH 4510 and PHYS 2130 or PHYS 2170 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to College of Engineering majors only.
    Course provides an introduction to the electronic, photonic and phononic properties of solid state materials and devices. Covers optical constants, free electron gas, plasmons, energy bands, semiconductors and doping, excitons, quantum wells, phonons, and electrooptical effects. The course makes use of quantum mechanical methods. Department enforced prereq., basic quantum mechanics. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course ECEN 3400 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to any graduate students or Electrical/Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering Concurrent Degree majors only.
    Relates performance and limitations of solid state devices to their structures and technology. Examines semiconductor physics and technology. Includes Pn-junction, Mos, and optoelectronic devices. For both advance circuit and device engineers. Recommended prereq., ECEN 3320. Prerequisites: Restricted to any graduate students or Electrical/Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering Concurrent Degree majors only.
    Includes an introduction to time-independent quantum mechanics and perturbation theory, tunneling, application to quantum-well electronic and optical devices, electrons in a crystalline solid, Bloch's theorem, energy bands and energy gaps, the effective mass approximation, a survey of energy bands forreal crystals: Si, Ge, Gaas, Inp, Algaas, etc., band structure engineering, and the electrical and optical properties of compound semiconductors. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ECEN 3320 and ECEN 5345 (all minimum grade D-).

    Same as ECEN 4375.

    Same as ECEN 4555. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors) or Graduate students only.
    Introduces lasers, Gaussian optics, modulators, nonlinear optics, optical detectors, and other related devices. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.