Commercial Leap Ahead Technology Course

This course is best run as a semester-long course with 2x 1.5-hour classes a week. This should be ~28 lectures, equaling ~42 hours of in-class time.
1.5-hour classes are recommended to allow for ~45 minutes of lecture and ~45 minutes of active learning/ in-class activities for each class period.

Course Level Learning Outcomes:
LO1: Students will be able to identify and assess current and past commercial leap ahead technologies including transistors and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs).
LO2: Students will be able to analyze wide-bandgap semiconductor devices with applications in power electronics and photonics.
LO3: Students will be able to conceptualize, critique, and compare photonic technologies including silicon photonics, photonic integrated circuits, and electro-optic systems.
LO4: Students will be able to conceptualize, critique, and compare wafer and chiplet bonding techniques and applications including high temperature direct bonding, plasma-activated bonding, and metal-assisted bonding.
LO5: Students will be able to identify and propose commercial leap ahead solutions to current technical problems.