Courses marked with an asterisk (*) are half courses.  The following courses are offered for graduate credit.  Not all of the courses, however, will be offered each year.  Click on a course's name to view its course outline (in case of a discrepancy, the official course outline will be distributed in class at the beginning of term).

*6D03 Nuclear Reactor Analysis NTD
Introduction to nuclear energy; nuclear physics and chain reactions; reactor statics and kinetics; multigroup analysis, core thermalhydraulics; reactor design.

*6F03 Solid State Devices II
Physical principles underlying the operation of selected devices and their characteristics. Optical devices (light emitting diodes, semiconductor lasers, photovoltaic cells), avalanche devices (IMPATT oscillators, photodiodes, transistors), Gunn effect devices, Read diodes, charge coupled devices, integrated circuits, Josephson junctions.

*6I03 Introduction to Biophotonics
This is a survey course on basic principles of light interaction with biological systems and specific biomedical applications of photonics.

*6K03 Optical Communication Systems(not offered in 2011-2012)
Propagation of light in an optical fibre. Semiconductor lasers and detectors for optical communications. Analogue and digital coding. Signal to noise considerations. System design.

*6L04 Industrial Monitoring and Detection Techniques
Single and two-phase flow diagnostics and monitoring techniques for industrial and power plant operations; radiation monitoring; pollutant monitoring and analyses; nuclear instrumentation for industrial processes.

*6P03 Nuclear Power Plant Systems and Operations NTD
Systems and overall unit operations relevant to nuclear power plants; includes all major reactor and process systems; nuclear power plant simulater; self-study using interactive CD ROM.

*6S03 Introduction to Lasers and Electro-Optics
Electro-magnetic radiation, optical modulation and detection; non-linear optics; coherence; optical resonators; laser gain media; laser systems; mode-locking.

*6X03 Introduction to Photovoltaics
A review of photovoltaic devices including solar cell operation, characterization, manufacturing, economics, and current and next generation technologies.

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The following 700-level courses are offered for graduate credit only.

*704 Selected Topics in Engineering Physics
Current developments and specialized aspects of engineering physics. This course may be taken for repetative credit.

*710 Nuclear Reactor Dynamics and Control
This course will present advanced material on reactor kinetics and reactor control that blends nuclear engineering and classical control engineering methods. The objective of the course is to provide graduate students and practicing engineers with the knowledge and techniques that allow them to analyse and solve real-world problems in the area.

*713 Nuclear Safety Analysis and Reactor Accidents (not offered in 2011-2012)
This course will provide the student with the detailed knowledge necessary to understand and perform nuclear safety analysis with specific application to CANDU and LWR reactors.

*714 Nuclear Reactor Safety Design NTD(not offered in 2011-2012)
Nuclear reactor safety design and analysis principles and practice.  Probability theory, failure rates, availability, reliability, test frequencies, dormant and active systems, and probability evaluation for simple systems.  Historical and philosophical basis for nuclear safety, safety criteria, initiating events, fault trees and event trees, safety analysis.

*715 Advanced Nuclear Reactor Thermalhydraulics (offered in 2011-2012)NTD
Advanced topics of current interest in the area of fission and fusion nuclear reactor primary heat transport system; system safety and the transitional operations.

*716 Reactor Heat Transport System Design NTD(not offered in 2011-2012)
Thermalhydraulic design and analysis of the primary heat transport system of nuclear reactors, emphasizing reactor main components and characteristics. Review of design methods and system equations based on conservation of heat, momentum and mass, including adequate empirical design correlations, critical heat flux and pressure drop calculations methods. Topics include description of reactor components and systems, plant control, design methodology, steady-state and transient performance, safety design margins.

*718 Reactor Heat Transport System Simulation and Analysis (not offered in 2011-2012) NTD
Two-fluid two-phase modelling of thermalhydrailic phenomena in reactor heat transport systems including modeling and simulation of postulated accidents. Topics include: two-fluid conservation equations and constitutive correlations, nodalization schemes and numerical methods applied in thermalhydraulic network simulation, equation of state and the rate method, computer code development, CATHENA computer code specific theory, numerical algorithms, and flow regime modelling. This is a simulation-based course; it includes CATHENA simulation assignments.

*719 MEMS Devices: Design, Fabrication & Applications (not offered in 2011-2012)
MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) technology is a highly interdisciplinary topic, based on principles from physics, materials science, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering – with applications to an even broader range of disciplines including sensors, telecommunications, microrobotics and biotechnology. This course will cover the fundamentals of MEMS device design and fabrication, illustrated by numerous practical examples from research and industry.

*720 Advanced modeling of semiconductor device fabrication (not offered in 2011-2012)
This course will explore the physics and technology under-pinning the global semiconductor fabrication industry. The design of processes for nano-, micro- and opto-electronic devices will be covered with description of the fundamental models describing diffusion, ion implantation, polymer processing, thin film deposition and thin film growth. Students will be required to develop models from first principal, as well as design novel process strategies using the industrial compatible software 'Athena'. Emphasis on industrial practice will be made with description of six-sigma process development.

*721 Lasers and Laser Physics 1 (not offered in 2011-2012)
An introduction to steady-state theories of laser oscillators and amplifiers, spectroscopy of laser media, population inversion mechanism in gaseous and solid-state systems.   Characterization of pulsing laser systems.

*723 Semiconductor Diode Laser Physics  (not offered in 2011-2012)
An examination of the theory of operation, manufacture, and application of semiconductor diode lasers. Emphasis will be on InGaAsP diode lasers and the application of these devices in optical communication systems.

*726 Optoelectronic Device Physics (not offered in 2011-2012)
Optoelectronic devices and the physics that governs their operation: the electro-optic, acousto-optic, and photoelastic effects; optics in semiconductors: free carrier effects, heterojunctions, quantum wells, electroabsorption; guided wave optics; optical modulators; photonic switching and optical interconnects; Fourier optics.

*729 Thin Film Growth and Deposition
A general introduction to thin film deposition techniques including vacuum science and technology, physical vapor deposition (evaporation, electron beam deposition, sputtering), chemical vapour deposition, and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) of thin semiconducting or dielectric films for electronic and optoelectronic applications.

*730 Thin Film Characterization (not offered in 2011-2012)
A general introduction of the most commonly used techniques to determine optical, electrical, structural, and compositional characteristics of thin films.

*734 Non Linear Optics  (not offered in 2011-2012)
This course gives an introduction to the basic principles of nonlinear optics, which is useful in understanding the nonlinear optical effects involved in many modern photonic components and systems.

*782 Solid-State Electronics
Crystallography:  binding and structure; free and nearly free electrons, energy bands; electronic aspects of semiconductors: doping, carrier statistics; point defects: energy levels, atomic configuration, thermodynamics; experimental aspects of defect spectroscopy.

Notes:
- NTD: Courses are regular graduate level courses that can be taken for the Nuclear Technology Diploma Program.
- NTD*: Permission of department required.