MSc(Eng) Semiconductor Photonics and Electronics

About the course

Meet the growing need in industry for advanced skills in electronic and photonic component engineering. If you have a numerate background or already work in industry, this course will upgrade your skills.

Core modules

• Research Techniques and Thesis Preparation
• Reliability and Failure
• Microsystems Packaging
• VLSI Design
• High Speed Electronic Devices
• Optical Communication Systems and Devices
• IC Technology
• Metals Semiconductors and Insulators
• Optical Properties of Solids
• Low Dimension Semiconductors
• Compound Semiconductor Technology
• Semiconductor Electronics and Photonics Project

Teaching

• Lectures
• Laboratories
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• A large practical module covers the design, manufacture and characterisation of a semiconductor component, such as a laser or light emitting diode. This involves background tutorials and a great deal of hands-on practical work in the UK's national III-V semiconductor facility

Assessment

• Examinations
• Coursework or reports
• Dissertation

Our graduates are in demand

Many go to work in industry as engineers for large national and international companies, including Rolls-Royce, Vodafone and Intel. Others continue to a research degree and an academic career.

Real-world applications

This is a research environment. What we teach is based on the latest ideas. The work you do on your course is directly connected to real-world applications.

We work with government research laboratories, industrial companies and other prestigious universities. Significant funding from UK research councils, the European Union and industry means you have access to the best facilities.

First-class facilities

Our state-of-the-art semiconductor growth and processing equipment is housed in an extensive clean room complex as part of the EPSRC’s National Centre for III-V Technologies.

Semiconductor Materials and Devices

• Laser photodetectors and transistor design
• A high-tech field-emission gun transmission electron microscope (FEGTEM)
• A focused ion beam (FIB) milling facility
• Electron beam lithographic equipment

Electrical Machines and Drives

• Specialist facilities for the design and manufacture of electromagnetic machines
• Dynamometer test cells
• A high-speed motor test pit
• Environmental test chambers
• Electronic packaging and EMC testing facilities
• Rolls Royce University Technology Centre for Advanced Electrical Machines and Drives

Communications

• Advanced anechoic chambers for antenna design and materials characterisation
• Outdoor free-field range facility at the Buxton site
• A lab for calibrated RF dosimetry of tissue to assess pathogenic effects of electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones
• Extensive CAD electromagnetic analysis tools

Vision and Information Engineering

• Wide ranging area of 'information' from numerically generated holograms for lithographic applications to image processing, computer vision, and machine learning.

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