Laboratory course introducing semiconductor material and device properties via characterization techniques, covering charge carriers, energy bands, space charge regions, carrier transport, light emission, and lattice vibrations.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades).
Optoelectronics Lab covers light detection, generation, and transmission with LEDs, lasers, and optical fibers; students perform optical characterization measurements.
Srdjan Milicic required 5-8 page individual lab reports after each session. Students described this as excessive work for a 1-credit course, with one estimating reports took five hours and another suggesting the workload matched a 3-4 credit class.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.05 GPA, 40.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.13 GPA, 47.4% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.30 GPA, 59.1% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).