MAT SCI 121 · MSE 121Materials Science of Semiconductors
Materials Science and Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Structure and properties of elemental and compound semiconductors. Electrical and optical properties, defect chemistry, and doping. Electronic materials analysis and characterization, including electrical, optical, and ion-beam techniques. Heterostructures, band-gap engineering, development of new materials for optoelectronic applications.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 120.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MAT SCI 121
- MAT SCI 120Physics of Materials
- MAT SCI 104Science of Engineering Materials
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields1 more beneath
- MAT SCI 110Introduction to Materials Characterization A (Crystal Structure, Nanostructures, and X-Ray Scattering)
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)1 more beneath
1 direct requisite. Showing 18 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MAT SCI 121
- MAT SCI 121LMaterials Science of Semiconductors Laboratory
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.