dabm (at) ee (dot) stanford (dot) edu
(650) 723 0111, (650) 723 9355 fax
1:30 - 3:00 on Wednesdays. Please contact Ingrid Tarien, ingrid@ee.stanford.edu, 723-0206 for appointments
outside these hours.
Rebecca Schaevitz, rschaevitz (at) stanford (dot) edu
Room 227, Ginzton Laboratory, (650) 725-2291
Section hours: Tuesdays, 3-5pm, Packard 104
Lectures
Course Web Page - http://eeclass.stanford.edu/ee343/
All course materials © Copyright D. A. B. Miller 1997-2008. All Rights Reserved
The course reader, “EE343 Advanced Optoelectronic Devices,” available from the Bookstore, is required. The course follows this reader closely. We will also post the chapters from this on the eeclass web site as pdf files. Other course documents will also be available from the eeclass web site.
The text “Physics of Optoelectronic Devices” by S. L. Chuang is an alternate reference for the course as a recommended text. It is not required. It is on reserve at the Engineering Library.
Semiconductor quantum well structures; superlattices and coupled quantum wells; optical properties of quantum wells; valence band structure; effects of strain; quantum well lasers; intersubband detectors; excitons in quantum wells; absorption saturation; electroabsorption; quantum well modulators and switches.
Understand principles, operation, and design of state‑of‑the‑art optoelectronic devices.
1. Introduction to quantum wells and superlattices
2. Tunneling resonance technique
3. Optical absorption in quantum wells
4. Excitons
5. Electroabsorption in quantum wells
6. Quantum well modulators and switches
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8. Quantum well lasers
9. Novel quantum well optoelectronic devices
Prerequisites: 243 Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices and/or EE222 and, ideally, EE223 (or sufficient overall background in optoelectronic devices and/or quantum mechanics)
There will be problem sets, given weekly and due back the following week for the majority of the course time. These will count for 1/3 of the grade.
There will be a “mid-term” project, due approximately 2/3 of the way through the course at a date to be determined, that will be specific design or calculation assignment in the properties of semiconductor materials and/or quantum well structures or devices. This will also count for 1/3 of the grade.
There will be a final project, due at a date to be determined near the end of the quarter. In this project, the student will investigate an advanced optoelectronic device of their choosing from the literature, and exercise what they have learnt in the course by investigating a possible re-design or improvement on the device. This will also count for 1/3 of the grade.
There will be no other examinations.