Course Objectives As part of this course, students will develop a SOLID understanding of semiconductor optoelectronic physics, major semiconductor OE devices, and their principles and characteristics.

Prerequisite

Textbook Lecture notes [available on LMS (https://lms.ncu.edu.tw) prior to the class]

There will be no textbook for this course; however, the teaching materials will mainly come from the books listed below:

1. S.-L. Chuang, Physics of Photonic Devices, 2nd Ed. (John Wiley & Sons, 2009).
2. S. O. Kasap, Optoelectronics and Photonics - Principles and Practices, 2nd Ed. (Pearson, 2013).
3. B. E. A. Saleh and M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics (John Wiley & Sons, 2007).

References
1. Mitsuo Fukuda, Optical Semiconductor Devices (John Wiley & Sons, 1999).
2. Pallab Bhattacharya, Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices, 2nd ed. (Prentice-Hall, 1996).
3. Donald A. Neamen, Semiconductor Physics and Devices – Basic Principles, 4th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2011).
4. Other references listed in each chapter (see the lecture notes).

Topical Outline 1. Review of Semiconductor Physics
Semiconductor Materials, Space Lattices, Diamond/Zincblende/Wurtzite Structures, Compound and Alloy Semiconductors, Reciprocal Lattice and First Brillouin Zone, Energy Bandstructures, Counting Electronic States/ Density of States Function, Fermi-Dirac Probability Distribution, Election and Hole Statistics in Thermal Equilibrium, Doped Semiconductors, Carrier Transport, Non-Equilibrium Excess Carriers in Semiconductors

2. Perturbation Theory and Fermi's Golden Rule
Introduction, Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory, Harmonic Perturbation and Fermi's Golden Rule

3. Optical Transitions in Bulk Semiconductors
Optical Transitions Using Fermi's Golden Rule, Spontaneous and Stimulated Emissions, Interband Absorption and Gain of Bulk Semiconductors, Interband Absorption and Gain in a Quantum Well

4. Semiconductor Heterojunctions
Review of pn Homojunctions, Semionconductor Heterojunctions – Basics, Biased p-N Heterojunctions, Semiconductor n-P Heterojunctions, Semiconductor n-N Heterojunctions, Metal Semiconductor Junctions

5. Photodetectors
Principle of the pn Junction Photodiode, Schottky-Ramo Theorem and External Photocurrent, Absorption Coefficient and Photodetector Materials, Figure of Merit of Photodiodes, The p-i-n Photodioide, Avalanche Photodiode, Heterojunction Photodiodes, Schottky Junction Photodetector, Phototransistors, Photoconductive Detectors

6. Light Emitting Diodes
Light-Emitting Diodes: Principles, Quantum Well High Intensity LEDs, LED Materials and Structures, LED Efficiencies and Luminous Flux, Basic LED Characteristics, LDE for Optical Fiber Communications, Phosphor and White LEDs

7. Optical Transitions in a Semiconductor Quantum Well
Introduction, Interband Absorption and Gain in a Quantum Well (Interband Optical Matrix Element, Optical Transition Rates, Joint Density of States, Optical Absorption Spectrum, Summary of Gain Spectrum), Intersubband Absorption (Intersubband Dipole Moment, Intersubband Absorption Spectrum)

8. Fundamentals of Semiconductor Lasers
Principle of the Laser Diode, Heterostructure Laser Diodes, Quantum-Well Lasers, Elementary Laser Diode Characteristics, Steady State Laser Diode Equation

9. Advanced Semiconductor Lasers
Distributed Bragg Reflector LDs, Distributed Feedback LDs, Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers, Direct Modulation of LDs

Appendix A. Semiconductor Statistics