Lecture 1 - Context, Scope and Contents of the Course
Lecture 2 - Energy Bands in Solids
Lecture 3 - E-k Diagram - The Band Structure
Lecture 4 - The Density of States
Lecture 5 - The Density of States ρ(k), ρ(E)
Lecture 6 - Density of States in a Quantum Well Structure
Lecture 7 - Occupation Probability and Carrier Concentration
Lecture 8 - Carrier Concentration and Fermi Level
Lecture 9 - Quasi Fermi Levels
Lecture 10 - Semiconductor Materials
Lecture 11 - Semiconductor Heterostructures-Lattice-Matched Layers
Lecture 12 - Strained-Layer Epitaxy and Quantum Well Structures
Lecture 13 - Bandgap Engineering
Lecture 14 - Heterostructure p-n junctions
Lecture 15 - Schottky Junctions and Ohmic Contacts
Lecture 16 - Fabrication of Heterostructure Devices
Lecture 17 - Interaction of Photons with Electrons and Holes in a Semiconductor
Lecture 18 - Optical Joint Density of States, and Probabilities of Emission and Absorption
Lecture 19 - Rates of Emission and Absorption
Lecture 20 - Amplification by Stimulated Emission
Lecture 21 - The Semiconductor (Laser) Amplifier
Lecture 22 - Absorption Spectrum of Semiconductors
Lecture 23 - Gain and Absorption Spectrum of Quantum Well Structures
Lecture 24 - Electro-absorption Modulator-I Principle of Operation
Lecture 25 - Electro-absorption Modulator-II Device Configuration
Lecture 26 - Injuction Electroluminescence
Lecture 27 - Light emitting diode-1 Device structure and parameters
Lecture 28 - Light emitting diode-II Device Characteristics
Lecture 29 - Light emitting diode-III Output Characteristics
Lecture 30 - Light emitting diode-IV Modulation Bandwidth
Lecture 31 - Light emitting diode-V Material and Applications
Lecture 32 - Laser Basics
Lecture 33 - Semiconductor Laser-I Device Structure
Lecture 34 - Semiconductor Laser-II Output Characteristics
Lecture 35 - Semiconductor Laser-III Single Frequency Lasers
Lecture 36 - Vertical cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL)
Lecture 37 - Quantum Well Laser
Lecture 38 - Practical Laser Diodes and Handling
Lecture 39 - General Characteristics of Photodetectors
Lecture 40 - Responsivity and Impulse Response
Lecture 41 - Photoconductors
Lecture 42 - Semiconductor Photo-Diodes-I: PIN Diode
Lecture 43 - Semiconductor Photo-Diodes-II: APD
Lecture 44 - Other Photodetectors
Lecture 45 - Photonic Integrated Circuits
