Course unit, curriculum year 2023–2024
FYS.508
Physics of Optoelectronics, 5 cr
Tampere University
- Description
- Completion options
Teaching periods
Active in period 1 (1.8.2023–22.10.2023)
Active in period 2 (23.10.2023–31.12.2023)
Active in period 3 (1.1.2024–3.3.2024)
Course code
FYS.508Language of instruction
EnglishAcademic years
2021–2022, 2022–2023, 2023–2024Level of study
Advanced studiesGrading scale
General scale, 0-5Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Mircea GuinaResponsible teacher:
Antti TukiainenResponsible teacher:
Teemu HakkarainenResponsible organisation
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences 100 %
Common learning outcomes
International outlook and global responsibility
Core content
- Energy bands and carrier transport in compound semiconductors
- Absorption, radiative, and non-radiative recombination
- Heterostructures and quantum confinement
- Junctions and interfaces
Complementary knowledge
- Crystal lattices
- Influence of defects on recombination processes
- Effects related to doping, temperature, and strain
- Biasing regimes of junction and carriers transport
Specialist knowledge
- Bandgap engineering: ability to design compounds with specifiec bandgaps
- Design of heterostructures targeting specific control of carrier-photon interaction.
- Design of quantum heterostructures with a targeted function
- Design of junctions with specifiec function
Learning outcomes
Further information
Learning material
Equivalences
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Completion of all options is required.
Participation in teaching
30.08.2023 – 15.10.2023
Active in period 1 (1.8.2023–22.10.2023)