EOP-626/ECE-676

Recent advances in nano-technology have made quantum-engineered devices a reality. This course will cover selected topics in quantum electronics of current and practical interest to scientists and graduate students in the area of optoelectronics.

Topics

• Semiconductor crystals and heterostructures
• Quantum wells
• Density of states
• Numerical solutions
• Quantum tunneling
• Quantum wires
• Quantum dots
• Superlattices
• Electron-photon scattering
• Electron-phonon scattering
• Quantum-well infrared photodetectors (QWIP)
• Quantum-well lasers
• Quantum cascade lasers (QCL)
• Strained quantum wells

Reference Text

Paul Harrison, “Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots: Theoretical and Computational Physics of Semiconductor Nanostructures – 3rd Edition“, John Wiley & Sons