printer friendly pageEE 328: Physics of Advanced Semiconductor Devices
Principles governing the operation of modern semiconductor devices. Assumptions and approximations commonly made in analyzing devices. Emphasis is on the application of semiconductor physics to the development of advanced semiconductor devices such as heterojunctions, HJ-bipolar transistors, HJ-FETs, nanostructures, tunneling, single electron transistor and photonic devices. Use of ATLAS, a 2-D Poisson solver, for simulation of ultra-small devices. Examples related to state-of-the-art devices and current device research. Prerequisite: 216. Recommended: 316.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Harris, J. (PI)
EE 334: Micro and Nano Optical Device Design
Lecture and project course on design and analysis of optical devices with emphasis on opportunities and challenges created by scaling to the micrometer and nanometer ranges. The emphasis is on fundamentals, combined with some coverage of practical implementations. Prerequisite: 242 or equivalent
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Solgaard, O. (PI)
EE 336: Nanophotonics (MATSCI 346)
Recent developments in micro- and nanophotonic materials and devices. Basic concepts of photonic crystals. Integrated photonic circuits. Photonic crystal fibers. Superprism effects. Optical properties of metallic nanostructures. Sub-wavelength phenomena and plasmonic excitations. Meta-materials. Prerequisite: electromagnetic theory at the level of 242.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Brongersma, M. (PI)
;
Fan, S. (PI)
EE 340: Advanced Topics in Optics and Quantum Optics
Optical microcavities and their device applications. Types of optical microcavities (microdisks, microspheres, and photonic crystal cavities), and their electromagnetic properties, design, and fabrication techniques. Cavity quantum electrodynamics: strong and weak-coupling regime, Purcell factor, spontaneous emission control. Applications of optical microcavities, including low-threshold lasers, resonant cavity light-emitting diodes, and single-photon sources. Prerequisites: advanced undergraduate or basic graduate-level knowledge of electromagnetics, quantum mechanics, and physics of semiconductors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Vuckovic, J. (PI)
EE 343: Advanced Optoelectronic Devices
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. Prerequisites: 222 or equivalent quantum mechanics, 243. Recommended: 223.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Miller, D. (PI)
EE 344: High Frequency Laboratory
Lecture/lab emphasizing lab. Techniques in the 1MHz-1GHz range useful in designing and measuring oscillators, amplifiers, and mixers. High frequency measurement techniques including s-parameter measurements, amplifier noise figure, and oscillator phase noise. Guest speakers from Lucent and Hewlett-Packard. Enrollment limited to 25. Prerequisites: transmission lines, Smith charts. Recommended: 314.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
EE 347: Optical Methods in Engineering Science
Design and understanding of modern optical systems. Topics: geometrical optics; aberration theory; systems layout; applications such as microscopes, telescopes, optical processors. Computer ray tracing program as a design tool. Prerequisite: 268
or 366, or equivalent.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Hesselink, L. (PI)
EE 348: Advanced Optical Fiber Communications
Optical amplifiers: gain, saturation, noise. Semiconductor amplifiers. Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. System applications: preamplified receiver performance, amplifier chains. Raman amplifiers, lumped vs. distributed amplification. Group-velocity dispersion management: dispersion-compensating fibers, filters, gratings. Interaction of dispersion and nonlinearity, dispersion maps. Multichannel systems. Wavelength-division multiplexing components: filters, multiplexers. WDM systems, crosstalk. Time-, subcarrier-, code- and polarization-division multiplexing. Comparison of modulation techniques: differential phase-shift keying, phase-shift keying, quadrature-amplitude modulation. Comparison of detection techniques: noncoherent, differentially coherent, coherent. Prerequisite: 247.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Kahn, J. (PI)
EE 359: Wireless Communication
Design, performance analysis, and performance limits of wireless systems. Topics include: current wireless systems, path loss and shadowing, statistical multipath channel models, capacity of wireless channels, digital modulation and its performance in fading and intersymbol interference, adaptive modulation, diversity, multiple antenna systems (MIMO), equalization, multicarrier modulation, and spread spectrum and RAKE receivers. Possible additional topics: multiuser system design issues such as multiple access, frequency reuse in cellular systems, and ad hoc wireless network design. Prerequisite: 279.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Goldsmith, A. (PI)
EE 360: Multiuser Wireless Systems and Networks
Design, analysis, and fundamental limits. Possible topics include multiuser detection and interference cancellation, multiple access, cellular system design and optimization, Shannon capacity and achievable rate regions of wireless multiuser channels and networks, ad hoc wireless network design, sensor and energy-constrained networks, and cross-layer design. Prerequisite: 359.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Goldsmith, A. (PI)
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