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Teaching Feedback by Students Reported under Rate My Professors Received the Virginia Tech Teacher of the Week Award twice which recognizes effective, engaged, and dynamic teachers implementing learner-centered pedagogy.

"Teacher of the Week" for Graduate Teaching in March 2012

"Teacher of the Week" for Undergraduate Teaching in September 2013

Course Description: Fundamentals of electrostatics and magnetostatics, transmission lines, EM waves, basic operating principles of pn junctions and MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors). Designing MOSFET biasing and amplifying circuits, and differential amplifier circuits. Basic operating principles of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device and its application as a digital inverter.
Exams dates and tentative course sechedule (lecture and lab for all three sections):

Course Description: The course will cover the semiconductor materials (Si, Ge, GeSn, GaAs, InGaAs, etc), device physics and device applications: Fundamental understanding of semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor materials and in-depth understanding of devices such as; PN junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), MOS capacitor, metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs), and solar cells.

Exams Dates : September 27th (Midterm-I during class time); November 1st (Midterm-II during class time) and December 8th (Final: 1:05 pm to 3:05 pm).

Course Description: Fundamentals of electrostatics and magnetostatics, transmission lines, EM waves, basic operating principles of pn junctions and MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors). Designing MOSFET biasing and amplifying circuits, and differential amplifier circuits. Basic operating principles of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device and its application as a digital inverter.
Exams dates and tentative course sechedule (lecture and lab for all three sections):

Course Description: The course will cover the semiconductor materials, device physics and device applications: Fundamental understanding of semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor materials and in-depth understanding of devices, such as p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor, metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors and solar cells.

Course Description: Fundamentals of electrostatics and magnetostatics, transmission lines, EM waves, basic operating principles of pn junctions and MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors). Designing MOSFET biasing and amplifying circuits, and differential amplifier circuits. Basic operating principles of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device and its application as a digital inverter.
Exams dates and tentative course sechedule (lecture and lab for all three sections):

Course Description: The course will cover the semiconductor materials, device physics and device applications: Fundamental understanding of semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor materials and in-depth understanding of devices, such as p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor, metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors and solar cells.

Course Description: Fundamentals of electrostatics and magnetostatics, transmission lines, EM waves, basic operating principles of pn junctions and MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors). Designing MOSFET biasing and amplifying circuits, and differential amplifier circuits. Basic operating principles of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device and its application as a digital inverter.

Course Description: The course will cover the semiconductor materials, device physics and device applications: Fundamental understanding of semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor materials and in-depth understanding of devices, such as p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor, metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors and solar cells.

Course Description: The course will cover the semiconductor materials, device physics and device applications: Fundamental understanding of semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor materials and in-depth understanding of devices, such as p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor, metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors and solar cells.

Course Description: The course will cover the semiconductor materials, device physics and device applications: Fundamental understanding of semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor materials and in-depth understanding of devices, such as p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor, metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors and solar cells.

Course Description: Introduction to basic electronic devices including diodes, field effect and bipolar transistors and their operating principles. Analysis of electronic circuits operating under DC bias and switching conditions. Application of devices in digital electronic circuits.

Course Description: The course will cover the semiconductor materials, device physics and device applications: Fundamental understanding of semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor materials and in-depth understanding of devices, such as p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor and metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors.

Course Description: This graduate level course will provide a detailed understanding of the principles of light generation and detection, operation, energy harvesting and storage devices.

What is this course about?

Minority carrier devices.

Device Physics

-- Crystal structure and band diagram.
-- DOS, heterostructure band alignment, QWs, and heavy doping effects.
-- Charge transport phenomena.
-- Optical processes in semiconductors.

Device Applications

-- Transport: P-N junctions
-- Generation of light: LEDs and Lasers
-- Detection of light: Photodetectors and solar cells

Course Description: The course will cover the semiconductor materials, device physics and device applications: Fundamental understanding of semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor materials and in-depth understanding of devices, such as p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor and metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors.

Course Description: Introduction to basic electronic devices including diodes, field effect and bipolar transistors and their operating principles. Analysis of electronic circuits operating under DC bias and switching conditions. Application of devices in digital electronic circuits.

Course Description: The course will cover the semiconductor materials, device physics and device applications: Fundamental understanding of semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor materials and in-depth understanding of devices, such as p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor and metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors.

Course Description: Introduction to basic electronic devices including diodes, field effect and bipolar transistors and their operating principles. Analysis of electronic circuits operating under DC bias and switching conditions. Application of devices in digital electronic circuits.

Course Description: Introduction to the basic laws and techniques for the analysis of electric circuits. Calculation of the response of circuits with resistors, independent sources, controlled sources, and operational amplifiers. The transient analysis of basic circuits with R, L, and C components. An introduction to AC analysis and phasors.

Course Description: The course will cover the semiconductor materials, device physics and device applications: Fundamental understanding of semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor materials and in-depth understanding of devices, such as p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor and metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors.

Course Description: Introduction to basic electronic devices including diodes, field effect and bipolar transistors and their operating principles. Analysis of electronic circuits operating under DC bias and switching conditions. Application of devices in digital electronic circuits.

Course Description: The course will cover the semiconductor materials, device physics and device applications: Fundamental understanding of semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor materials and in-depth understanding of devices, such as p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor and metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors.

Course Description: Introduction to basic electronic devices including diodes, field effect and bipolar transistors and their operating principles. Analysis of electronic circuits operating under DC bias and switching conditions. Application of devices in digital electronic circuits.

Course Description: The course will cover the semiconductor materials, device physics and device applications: Fundamental understanding of semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor materials and in-depth understanding of devices, such as p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor and metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors.

Course Description: Introduction to basic electronic devices including diodes, field effect and bipolar transistors and their operating principles. Analysis of electronic circuits operating under DC bias and switching conditions. Application of devices in digital electronic circuits.

Course Description: The course will cover the semiconductor materials, device physics and device applications: Fundamental understanding of semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor materials and in-depth understanding of devices, such as p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor and metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors.

Course Description: This graduate level course will provide a detailed understanding of the principles of light generation and detection, operation, energy harvesting and storage devices.

What is this course about?

Minority carrier devices.

Device Physics

-- Crystal structure and band diagram.
-- DOS, heterostructure band alignment, QWs, and heavy doping effects.
-- Charge transport phenomena.
-- Optical processes in semiconductors.

Device Applications

-- Transport: P-N junctions
-- Generation of light: Lasers
-- Propagation of light: Optical waveguides
-- Detection of light: Photodetectors and solar cells

Course Description: The course will cover the device physics and device applications: Fundamental semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor devices and in-depth understanding of p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor, and metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors.

Course Description: Introduction to basic electronic devices including diodes, field effect and bipolar transistors and their operating principles. Analysis of electronic circuits operating under DC bias and switching conditions. Application of devices in digital electronic circuits.

Course Description: Introduction to basic electronic devices including diodes, field effect and bipolar transistors and their operating principles. Analysis of electronic circuits operating under DC bias and switching conditions. Application of devices in digital electronic circuits.

Course Description: The course objective is advanced treatment of the operating principles of semiconductor optoelectronic devices with direct comparison to experimental data reported in the literature. This course will provide a graduate level understanding of the principles of light generation and detection, operation, and design of the state-of-the art of optoelectronic and photonic devices.

Course Description: The course will cover the device physics and device applications: Fundamental semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor devices and in-depth understanding of p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor, and junction field effect transistors.

Course Description: With looming energy crisis around the globe, environmental issues, and climate changes due to potential global warming effects, we need not only energy efficient ULSI systems for computation and information storage to reduce electricity consumption, but also alternate sources of renewable energy to power future electronic systems. This course will provide a graduate level understanding of the application of semiconductor heterostructures into three major research areas:

• Low-power and high-performance energy computing;
• Energy conversion (photovoltaics and thermophotovoltaics); and
• Solid state lighting.

This course will provide students with an introduction and importance of semiconductor heterostructure for the designing of (i) low-power transistors; (ii) multijunction high efficiency solar cells and (iii) solid state lightening for display devices based on compound semiconductors. Students will learn to design tailor-made device architecture by bandgap and strain engineering without changing the lattice constant of semiconductors.

Course Description: The course will cover the device physics and device applications: Fundamental semiconductor device physics associated with semiconductor devices and in-depth understanding of p/n junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, MOS capacitor, and junction field effect transistors.