Stand-Alone Graduate Certificate in Semiconductor Optoelectronics

General Information

A bachelor of science in engineering or the physical sciences, or equivalent experience required. Participants should be familiar with chemistry, calculus-based physics, and differential equations.

Up to six credit hours from one of the following Embedded Graduate Certificates may be double-counted toward another certificate in this list: Stand-Alone Graduate Certificate in Semiconductor Devices, Stand-Alone Graduate Certificate in Semiconductor Fabrication Technology, and Stand-Alone Graduate Certificate in Semiconductor Optoelectronics.

A GPA of 3.0 in certificate courses is required; only grades of C- or better may be counted toward the certificate.

All courses are in person.

All courses in the certificate must be taken at The Ohio State University.

To apply online: visit https://gpadmissions.osu.edu/index.html

Required Courses (3 hours)

Hrs

ECE 5530

Fundamentals of Semiconductors for Microelectronics and Photonics

3

Additional Electives (choose at least three) (9 hours min)

ECE 5012

Integrated Optics

3

ECE 5037

Solid State Electronics and Photonics Laboratory

4

ECE 5131

Lasers

3

ECE 5132

Photonics

3

ECE 5244

Si and Wide Band-Gap Power Devices

3

ECE 5537

Semiconductor Device Characterization and Modeling Lab

4

ECE 5832

Photovoltaics and Energy Conversion

3

ECE 6533

Infrared Detectors and Systems

3

ECE 6535

Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices

3

Total certificate hours (min)

12 hrs