EECE 577EECE 577SolidSolid--state Electronic and state Electronic and

Photonic DevicesPhotonic Devices

LECTURE 1

• Contact and website details

• Audience

• Introduction to the devices to be studied

• Current (Read Section 5.1)

• BTE (Read 5.2)

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AudienceAudience

1. Graduate students doing research in semiconductor devices or materials.

2. Graduate students in related disciplines, such as IC design, analog design, semiconductor physics, optoelectronics, who are interested in knowing the capabilities of semiconductor devices.

3. Would-be device engineers/materials scientists who want to

- understand how present devices work

- appreciate how future devices work when they are announced

- participate in the development of new devices.

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Devices for 577, Devices for 577, 2011:2011: 11Chap. 18

What are these devices?

What new physics do we need to know to understand these devices?

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Devices for 577, 2011: 2Devices for 577, 2011: 2Chaps. 12, 13, 14, 17

What are these devices?

What makes them suited to analog RF?

Can the FET match the HBT?

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Devices for 577, 2011: 3Devices for 577, 2011: 3Chaps. 3, 7

What is this device?

What are the various layers?

Why is there so much interest in, and hope for, this device?

Devices for 577, 2011: 4Devices for 577, 2011: 4Chaps. 3, 8

How does one get white light out of these devices?

Will LEDs ever be practical for general-purpose lighting?