1. Structure properties of Semiconductor: Crystal growth, crystal structures, strain in heterostructure, polar materials.
2. Reviews on quantum mechanic theory: Schrödinger equations, quantum well, time-independent/time independent perturbation theory.
3. Semiconductor band structure: Bloch theorem of crystal, tight binding method, spin orbit coupling, and k.p method.
4. Band structure modification: Band structure of alloys, Band structure in quantum well and quantum dot, strain and deformation potential theory, polar heterostructures.
5. Transport and Scattering theory: Defect and carrier-carrier scattering (ionized impurity scattering, charged dislocation scattering, alloy scattering and interface roughness scattering, lattice vibrations, phonon scattering, polariton and plasmons.
6. Optical properties of semiconductors: Maxwell’s equations and vector potential, interband transitions, indirect interband transitions, charge injection, radiative recombination, non-radiative recombination, and LEDs. The materials will include Group IV, III-V (GaAs, GaN based materials), and II-VI (ZnO, ZnS)
7. Excitonic effects: Excitonic states in semiconductors, optical properties with inclusion of excitonic effects, excitonic states in quantum well, excitonic absorption, and excitonic broadening.
8. Modulations of optical properties: Modulation of optical properties, Electro-optic effect, and quantum confined stark effect.