May be cross-listed with MASC623. ELEG320 and ELEG340. ELEG 624 Fundamental Device Principles 3 Introduces fundamental principles of semiconductor devices and derive the operating characteristics of several important device examples. ELEG 625 Optical Fiber Communications 3 Introduces the fundamental aspect of optical fiber communications as well as some advanced topics, such as all optical communications and networks. Topics to be covered include optical fiber structure, charasteristics, and fabrications, wave propagation in dispersive medium, optical sources and coupling, optical detectors, communication systems and advanced system techniques.
Undergraduate students require permission of instructor.
ELEG 626 Integrated Circuits 3 Design and fabrication principles for semiconductor devices and integrated circuits. Fundamentals of integrated circuit layout. Techniques for epitaxial growth, ion-implantation methods. ELEG 629 Digital Structures 3 Boolean algebra and propositional calculus as applied to combinational and sequential systems, register transfer and arithmetic operations, finite-state automata and other theoretical concepts of information processing. Examples from structural and logical organization of general and special purpose computers.