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，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被纳入本科课程。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，为大学物理和工程系的本科生教师举办为期两周的半导体光电子学研讨会。研讨会将包括关于III-V直接带隙半导体外延、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讲座、实验室参观/演示和动手实验室课程。该项目旨在促进将半导体光电子学纳入本科物理和工程学，在教师内部培养对该学科的基本知识和欣赏，提供与一些最新实验和理论进展的直接联系，并通过在本科教师和该领域的国家卓越中心之间建立持续的互惠互动。除了国家科学基金会的资金外，参与者的机构将为该项目的运营贡献约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.