Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement in Semiconductor Optoelectronics

半导体光电子学在科学和工程中越来越重要。因此，向工程师和科学家介绍光电子学是非常可取的。许多相关材料可以而且应该纳入本科课程。新墨西哥大学高科技材料中心将与桑迪亚国家实验室合作，为大学物理系和工程系的本科教师举办为期两周的半导体光电子学研讨会。研讨会将包括讲座，实验室参观/演示，以及III-V直接间隙半导体外延，半导体注入激光器等光电子器件的制造，加工和表征以及光纤通信等应用的动手实验。本项目旨在通过培养教师对该学科的基本知识和欣赏，促进将半导体光电子学纳入本科物理和工程，并提供一些最新实验和理论进展的直接接触。通过在本科教师和该领域的国家卓越中心之间建立持续互利的互动。除了美国国家科学基金会的资金外，参与者所在机构还将为项目的运营提供大约10%的差旅费用。

Semiconductor optoelectronics is becoming increasingly important in science and engineering. It is therefore highly desirable that engineers and scientists should be introduced to optoelectronics. Much of the relevant material can and should be incorporated in undergraduate curricula. The Center for High Technology Materials at the University of New Mexico, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, will conduct a two-week workshop in semiconductor optoelectronics for undergraduate teaching faculty in university physics and engineering departments. The workshop will include lectures, laboratory tours/demonstrations, and hands-on laboratory sessions in epitaxy of III-V direct-gap semiconductors, fabrication, processing and characterization of optoelectronic devices such as semiconductor injection lasers, and applications such as optical fiber communications. This project aims to facilitate the inclusion of semiconductor optoelectronics in undergraduate physics and engineering by developing within faculty a basic knowledge and appreciation of the subject, providing direct contact with some of the latest experimental and theoretical advances, and by establishing an ongoing and mutually beneficial interaction between undergraduate faculty and a national center of excellence in the field. In addition to the NSF funds, participants' institutions will contribute about 10% in travel costs toward the operation of the project.