Instructor(s)
Prof. Caroline Ross
MIT Course Number
3.15
As Taught In
Fall 2006
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
- Selected lecture notes
- Assignments: problem sets with solutions
- Exams and solutions
- Images on Flickr
Course Description
This course explores the relationships which exist between the performance of electrical, optical, and magnetic devices and the microstructural characteristics of the materials from which they are constructed. The class uses a device-motivated approach which emphasizes emerging technologies. Device applications of physical phenomena are considered, including electrical conductivity and doping, transistors, photodetectors and photovoltaics, luminescence, light emitting diodes, lasers, optical phenomena, photonics, ferromagnetism, and magnetoresistance.
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