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The course is designed to develop and enhance the understanding of the physical principles of modern semiconductor electronic and opto-electronic devices. The course starts with the basics of band structure of solid with emphasis on group IV and III-V semiconductors as well as two dimensional semiconductors like graphene. It continues with the statistics of carriers in semiconductors and continues to electronic transport properties, followed by optical properties. The course goes on to investigate the properties of two dimensional electronic gas. The second part of the course describes operational principles of bipolar and unipolar transistors, light emitting diodes, photodetectors, and quantum devices.