Course Information

Office hours are Thursday 10am-12noon in 417 Weniger Hall.

Course description pdf

Course calendar pdf

OSU academic calendar for winter 2008 link


Problem Sets and solutions

PS1 pdf, solutions pdf

PS2 pdf - solutions pdf

Midterm pdf - solutions pdf

PS3 pdf - solutions pdf

PS4 pdf- due Friday, Mar 7

Practice final


Class handouts

States in semiconductor, excitons, bound excitons, charged excitons etc. pdf

Semiconductor alloys, such as AlGaAs pdf

Avalanche breakdown of pn junction in reverse bias pdf

Quantum Cascade Laser pdf

Distributed Bragg Reflectors pdf


Reading Material

APL 1994 - Quantum cascade laser pdf

Science 2002 - Radial breathing mode in nanotubes pdf

Nature 2003 - Electrically driven nanowire laser pdf

Nature 2003 - Exciton formation in electron-hole gas pdf

PRL 2004 - Nitrogen-Vacancy impurity centers in diamond pdf

Nature 2004 - Strong coupling QED in solid state structure pdf

PRL 2006 - Coherence in exciton liquid pdf


Links to websites

Parameters of semiconductor compounds and heterostructures link

Circular polarization = superimposed linear polarizations, 90 deg out of phase link