Course
code | EC539 |
credit_hours | 3 |
title | Opto Electronics |
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prequisites | EC233 |
credit hours | 3 |
Description/Outcomes | Optical radiation, Light emitting Diodes: Basic parameters of optical radiation, luminescence of semiconductors.
Photo Detectors: Photoelectric effect, parameters and characteristics of photo detectors, current amplifying photo detectors.
Coherent optoelectronics: Physical processes in lasers, laser structure, semiconductor laser types, laser modulators.
Solar cells: P-N junction silicon solar cells, performance, thin film solar cells, encapsulation of solar cells.
Fabrication of optoelectronic devices: Fabrication processes, LEDs, photo detectors, optocouplers, optical fibers, semiconductor lasers, and solar cells. |
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objectives | To be familiar with the theory and applications of optoelectronic devices |
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ref. books | J. Senior, Optical Fiber Communications: Principle and Practice, 2nd ed., Prrentice-Hall, 1992.
J. Wilson and J.F.B. Hawkes, Optoelectronics: An Introduction, Prrentice-Hall, 1983. |
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textbook | Endel Uiga, Optoelectronics, Prentice-Hall, 1995. |
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objective set | bullets |
content set | bullets |
Course Content
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Description |
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Principle of optical radiation, reflection, refraction and absorption, optical properties of semiconductors, radiative transition and optical absorption, injection and radiative recombination.
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2 |
LED(1): operation, parameters and characteristics, carrier injection and spontaneous emission, internal and external radiative efficiencies.
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LED(2): performance, current characteristics, response time, advanced LEDs: Heterojunction LED, edge-emitting LED, surface emitting LED.
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Stimulated versus spontaneous emission, laser operation: population inversion, carrier and optical confinement, optical feedback and laser oscillation
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Threshold current density in laser, laser below and above the threshold, gain.
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Materials and laser structures for superior performance, advanced laser diode (LD), homojunction, heterojunctions, distribution feedback (DFB) laser diode, surface emitting diode.
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Laser modulator, holographic data system +7th Week Exam
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Photo detector: operation, limitation, cutoff wavelength for absorption, responsively, quantum efficiency, response speed.
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Photo detector: photo current and photo current gain in photo conductor, metal-semiconductor photo diode, heterojunction photodiode, photo resistor.
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Unity gain and current amplifying photo diode.
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Solar cell: operation, performance, conversion efficiency, series resistance, recombination current.
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Advanced solar cell and encapsulation, heterojunction solar cell, Shotky barrier solar cell, metal-insulator solar cell, optical concentration.
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Fabrication of planar semiconductor devices, bulk crystal growth, epitaxial crystal growth.
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14 |
Lithography photo resist coating, mask generation and image transform, etching, wet chemical etching, epitaxial regrowth.
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Fabrication of optoelectronic devices: LD, LED, photodiode, optical fibers ? Optical computer.
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Final Examination
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