Solid State Electronics and Photonics

Prof. Paul Berger, Chair

The future is leading to technologies involving a billion transistors on a chip, beyond megahertz logic to gigahertz logic, beyond gigahertz analog to terahertz analog, to new optoelectronic systems for processing information, even toward computational systems with billions of analog processors, comparable to the number of neurons in the human brain.

Physical Electronics encompasses the study and design of the physical systems that allow these advances to be made. This ranges from the design of VLSI circuits to the study of the impact of a single layer of atoms on the electronic properties of a device; from the study of light emission from laser diodes to the design of processes for manufacturing integrated circuits. Area web page with links to research labs.

Students wishing more information should contact any of the faculty in the area: Profs. Anderson, Berger, Brillson, Lu, Ringel, Roblin, and Valco.