Semiconductors are central to computing, communications, sensing, energy conversion, transportation, health technologies and national security. Their continued development depends on engineers who understand not only how semiconductor devices operate, but also how the underlying materials are synthesized, processed, and characterized, and how the devices are integrated together for specific applications.

The Master of Science in Semiconductor Science and Technology provides an integrated graduate education in semiconductor materials, and its processing, devices, and their fabrication and integration to form the circuits. The curriculum connects the physical principles that govern semiconductor behavior with the practical methods used to create and evaluate electronic materials and structures, including thin-film synthesis, interfaces, micro- and nanofabrication, materials characterization, and solid-state device physics and circuits.

The program is housed in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and is offered in close collaboration with the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Students therefore draw on complementary strengths in materials science and electrical engineering while building a coherent program of study focused on semiconductor technology.