Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement in Semiconductor Optoelectronics

半导体光电子学在科学和工程中正变得越来越重要。因此，工程师和科学家应该在他们职业生涯的早期阶段被介绍给光电子学，这是非常可取的。许多相关材料可以而且应该被纳入本科课程。新墨西哥大学高科技材料中心与桑迪亚国家实验室合作，正在为大学物理和工程系的25名本科生教员举办为期七天的半导体光电子学研讨会。研讨会包括关于III-V直接带隙半导体的外延、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讲座、实验室参观/演示和动手实验室课程。该项目通过在教师内部培养对该学科的基本知识和欣赏，提供与一些最新的实验和理论进展的直接联系，以及通过在本科教师和该领域的国家卓越中心之间建立持续和互惠的互动，促进将半导体光电子学纳入本科学科。

Semiconductor optoelectronics is becoming increasingly important in science and engineering. It is therefore highly desirable that engineers and scientists should be introduced to optoelectronics at an early stage in their careers. 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, is conducting a seven day workshop in semiconductor optoelectronics for twenty-five undergraduate teaching faculty in university physics and engineering departments. The workshop includes 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 application such as optical fiber communications. This project facilitates the inclusion of semiconductor optoelectronics as an undergraduate discipline 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 and ongoing and mutually beneficial interaction between undergraduate faculty and a national center of excellence in the field.