Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement in Semiconductor Optoelectronics

半导体光电子学正变得越来越重要， 科学与工程学 因此，非常希望 工程师和科学家应该在一个 在他们职业生涯的早期。 许多相关材料可以和 应纳入本科课程。 中心为高 新墨西哥州大学的技术材料， 与桑迪亚国家实验室合作， 在半导体光电子学方面， 在大学物理系和工程系任教。 研讨会包括讲座，实验室图尔斯/演示， III-V直接带隙外延的实验室实践课程 半导体的制造、加工和特性 光电器件，例如半导体注入激光器，以及 例如光纤通信。 该项目有助于将半导体 光电子学作为一门本科学科，通过在 教师的基本知识和欣赏的主题，提供 直接接触一些最新的实验和理论 进步，并通过建立和持续和互利 本科教师和国家中心之间的互动， 在外地的优秀。

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.