ELL745
| ELL745 | |
|---|---|
| Quantum Electronics | |
| Credits | 3 |
| Structure | 3-0-0 |
| Pre-requisites | ELL732(PG) |
| Overlaps | ELL739 |
ELL745 : Quantum Electronics
[edit]Newtonian mechanics, wavepackets, brief history of quantum mechanics, blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect, wave-particle duality, second quantization, Semiconductor materials, crystal structure and defects, Bravais lattices, Brillouin zones, Miller indices, periodic potentials, Kronig-Penney model, bandstructure in bulk semiconductors, Bloch theorem, direct and indirect bandgap semiconductors, effective mass, effect of alloying, carrier statistics, superlattices and quantum wells, density of states in 0,1,2 and 3 dimensions, bandstructure in lower dimensional systems, heterojunctions, effect of strain on bandstructure, excitonic effects in semiconductors, tunneling, perturbation theory, scattering and collisions, phonons, high-field transport, Boltzmann transport theory, spin transport, excitons, optical processes in semiconductors and quantum wells, absorption, gain, spontaneous and stimulated emission, fluorescence and phosphorescence, photophysics of organic molecules and polymers.